Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel AdamsRead
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for the beauty in the natural world and human existence.
Ansel Adams emphasizes the intrinsic beauty found in nature—such as stones, water, air, and soil—as well as in humanity and the interconnectedness of life. His belief in beauty reflects an admiration for the natural environment and the potential of human beings, suggesting that both are deserving of respect and reverence.
Themes
BeautyNatureHumanityExistenceAppreciation
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental conservation to highlight the importance of nature's beauty.
More from Ansel Adams
All quotes →It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel AdamsRead
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel AdamsRead
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
Ansel AdamsRead
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel AdamsRead
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel AdamsRead
Similar quotes
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.
StarhawkRead
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
T. S. EliotRead
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
Edward AbbeyRead
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
Edward AbbeyRead
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.
Pope Benedict XviRead
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
William ShakespeareRead