Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. – Ansel Adams
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers