There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. – Ansel Adams
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron