Ansel Adams Quotes

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I believe that art has incredible power.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

Art is when things appear rounded.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.