A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
– Ansel Adams
The sense of the presence of the eternal world in Adams’s photographs is achieved not only by his constant choice of sublime moments and viewpoints, but also by his legendary technical brilliance, which transforms an ordinary scene into a luminescent, fully realized, precious object.
~ Jonathan Green, American Photography
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s only when you grow up, and step back from [your father], or leave him for your own career and your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. ~ Margaret Truman
Stretch your mind and fly. ~ Whitney M. Young Jr.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being ~ Ansel Adams
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am still learning. ~ Michaelangelo
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ~ Christopher Marlowe
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. ~ Edward Abbey
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. ~Andrew Wyeth
