Ansel Adams Reality Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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