"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."
"I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us."
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Source: Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley, www.today.com. October 28, 2014.
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