Ansel Adams Quotes

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Ansel Adams

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• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Ride

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Job
  • Myself

• It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Art
  • Greatest

• First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Work
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Different
  • Art

• A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Sick

• My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

  

  James Wolk
  • Women
  • Art
  • Dad

• Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Art
  • Nature

• I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Life
  • Art
  • Experience

• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  

  Alfred Jodl
  • Character
  • Action
  • Single

• Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Magic

• Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Art
  • Photograph
  • Masterpiece