Ansel Adams Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Believe

• Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

  Ansel Adams

  Reality, Spirit, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Reality, Men

• Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

• To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Spiritual, Reflection

• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

• The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Dream, Reality

  Radio interview, 1972.

• All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Reality

  "Photography's Ardent Proselytizer" by Andy Grundberg, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1984.

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