There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Quote by Ansel Adams

Topics: Photography Quotes

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into...

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into...

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies;...

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies;...

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others...

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others...

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and...

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and...

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while...

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while...

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce,...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce,...

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the...

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.