“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
More from Ansel Adams on Art
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.”
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.”
“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
W.H. Auden
7 quotes“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of...”