Famous Quotes

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

Ansel Adams on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Ansel Adams

• "Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

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

• "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

• "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."

• "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."