Top 100 Ansel's Quotes
#1. I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake.
Sarah J. Maas
#2. I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.
Christina Lauren
#3. Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel Adams
#4. My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
Ansel Elgort
#5. Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing a Facebook status: it's the same. I view tweeting as like writing a Facebook status. Remember when we used to write statuses?
Ansel Elgort
#6. When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
Ansel Elgort
#7. I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.
Ansel Elgort
#8. I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country.
Annie Leibovitz
#9. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
Ansel Adams
#10. Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.
Al Madrigal
#11. Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
Ansel Elgort
#12. I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
Ansel Elgort
#13. My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
Ansel Adams
#14. I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.
Owen Wilson
#15. Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
Elliott Erwitt
#16. I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.
Ansel Elgort
#17. I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.
Ansel Elgort
#18. We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
Ansel Adams
#19. You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
Ansel Elgort
#20. I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
Ansel Elgort
#21. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children ... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money ... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Ansel Adams
#22. 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.
Ansel Adams
#23. All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
Ansel Adams
#24. My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
Ansel Elgort
#25. There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.
Ansel Elgort
#26. That cocky smile widened. "Hello, bitch," Ansel purred.
"Hello, traitor," Aelin purred right back... "Meet Ansel of Briarcliff, assassin and Queen of the Western Wastes.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.
Ansel Elgort
#28. The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams
#29. I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.
Ansel Elgort
#30. Do you still want Ren?" I listened to my own heartbeat for a minute before answering. "Yes." "That's one hot mess, Cal." Ansel smiled at me.
Andrea Cremer
#31. The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
#32. There's going to come a time when maybe I have kids and a wife.
Ansel Elgort
#33. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.
Russell Banks
#34. I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
Ansel Elgort
#35. I'd like to be Gandalf for a day - he's so wise, he's so powerful, and he's so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake 'Lord of The Rings,' maybe I'll play it.
Ansel Elgort
#36. It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
Ansel Adams
#37. I love when a girl is like, 'I can't hang out. I have to go to class.' And I go pick her up, and she's all sweaty in a leotard with her hair in a bun. That's the hottest thing ever.
Ansel Elgort
#38. The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.
Ansel Elgort
#39. I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?
Ansel Elgort
#40. But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.
Russell Banks
#41. We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
Ansel Adams
#42. Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams
#43. Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.
Ansel Elgort
#44. My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?
Ansel Elgort
#45. Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.
Ansel Elgort
#46. 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.
Ansel Elgort
#47. I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
Ansel Elgort
#48. It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
Ansel Elgort
#49. It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.
Ansel Elgort
#50. There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.
Ansel Elgort
#51. Ansel sighed. You know, this is the problem with you alphas, you're so concerned about taking over the new pack that you don't notice what's happening right in front of your face.
Andrea Cremer
#52. When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
Ansel Elgort
#53. I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
Ansel Adams
#54. A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
Ansel Adams
#55. I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.
Ansel Elgort
#56. For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
Ansel Adams
#57. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams
#59. I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
Ansel Adams
#61. If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Paul Strand
#62. I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.
Ansel Elgort
#63. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..
Ansel Adams
#64. I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
Ansel Elgort
#65. My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
Ansel Adams
#66. My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.
Ansel Elgort
#67. When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
Imogen Cunningham
#68. One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
Ansel Adams
#69. We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams
#70. This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Ansel Adams
#71. I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
Ansel Adams
#72. In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
Ansel Elgort
#73. I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
Ansel Elgort
#74. I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams
#75. The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
Ansel Elgort
#76. Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.
Ansel Elgort
#77. From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.
Russell Banks
#78. I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.
Ansel Elgort
#79. It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
Ansel Adams
#80. The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
Ansel Adams
#81. I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.
Ansel Elgort
#82. No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel Adams
#83. So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.
Ansel Elgort
#84. In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular ... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams
#85. Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
Ansel Adams
#86. In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
John Sexton
#87. I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
Ansel Elgort
#88. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
#89. The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
Ansel Elgort
#90. I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'
Ansel Elgort
#91. I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
Ansel Elgort
#93. My style is clubby and groovy - you can jump to it, but you don't just have to just jump to it. It's not just really bass-heavy and hurts your ears; you move with it, and it sounds kind of tribal.
Ansel Elgort
#94. In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.
Ansel Elgort
#95. You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.
Ansel Elgort
#96. Bad weather makes for good photography.
Ansel Adams
#97. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
Brett Weston
#98. The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
Ansel Adams
#99. I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
Ansel Elgort
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