Ansel Adams

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

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

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

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

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."

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

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."