Ansel Adams Quotes

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Ansel Adams

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• Golf was never a religion to me.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Me
  • Never
  • Religion

• Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Try

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• I still like my antique clothes.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Clothes
  • Still

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Nothing

• Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Career
  • Living
  • Realize

• I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Best
  • Company

• At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Small

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Child

• When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • God
  • Reason
  • Pray

• I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

  

  William Eggleston
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Appreciate

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Gift
  • Wedding
  • Camera

• It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Camera
  • Photographer
  • Instrument