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Abigail Adams - From the Timeliness category:
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed... Great necessities call out great virtues. (Abigail Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Abstraction category:
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Accidents category:
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Aging category:
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)
Ansel Adams - From the Art category:
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Audience category:
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Awareness category:
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Beauty category:
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Composition category:
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Comprehension category:
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Creativity category:
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Difficulty category:
If photography were difficult in the true sense - that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Earth category:
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Environment category:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Exploration category:
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Expression category:
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)
Ansel Adams - From the Greatness category:
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Happiness category:
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Ideas category:
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Imagination category:
When I'm ready to make a photograph... I quite obviously see in my mind's eye something that is not literally there... I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Immortality category:
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Influence category:
We don't make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Life category:
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Music category:
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Mysteries category:
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Nature category:
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Opportunity category:
Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Perception category:
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?" (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Perfection category:
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Performance category:
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Photography category:
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Photography category:
You don't take a photograph, you make it. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Photography category:
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Practice category:
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)
Ansel Adams - From the Questions category:
Ask yourself, "Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?" Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Reality category:
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Silence category:
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Spectator category:
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Subject category:
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Universe category:
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Vision category:
-Ansel Adams, Master Photographers
My last word is that it all depends on what you visualize. (Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams - From the Words category:
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, "Here it is." (Ansel Adams)
B. J. Adams - From the Accomplishment category:
The busier you are the more you can accomplish. (B. J. Adams)
B. J. Adams - From the Ideas category:
While working on one piece, another concept often emerges, and it is this constant, stimulating flow that causes my work to evolve. (B. J. Adams)
B. J. Adams - From the Materials category:
The sewing machine is my brush and pencil; hundreds of colors of thread have become paint for realistic and abstract images set on various backgrounds. (B. J. Adams)
B. J. Adams - From the Mediums category:
My work consists of mixing colored pencil lines to produce the intended color for realistic images and then translating these drawings into thread... mixing many threads – in free sewing machine embroidery – to create a different texture of the image. (B. J. Adams)
B. J. Adams - From the Nudes category:
You miss a lot of wonderful as well as historic art if the nude is denounced. (B. J. Adams)
Brian Adams - From the Belief category:
Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes the subconscious identically creates. (Brian Adams)
Brian Adams - From the Difficulty category:
Difficulties are opportunities to better things, they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps some day you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens,
as a natural law it has to be, to balance. (Brian Adams)
Cindy Adams - From the Gender category:
Success has made failures of many men. (Cindy Adams)
Claude Adams - From the Photography category:
Having and camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. (Claude Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Ability category:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Imitation category:
It looked like something resembling white marble, which was probably what it was: something resembling white marble. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Journey category:
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Technology category:
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Time category:
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Understanding category:
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. (Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - From the Universe category:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. (Douglas Adams)
Franklin P. Adams - From the Imagination category:
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. (Franklin P. Adams)
Franklin P. Adams - From the Information category:
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. (Franklin P. Adams)
Franklin P. Adams - From the Writing category:
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. (Franklin P. Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Colour category:
There are always a myriad of colour choices that will work in any situation, as long as the tonal value is appropriate. (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Fun category:
Let's work hard, but take the pressure off ourselves and have some fun with the process. Otherwise, what is the point? (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Mistakes category:
We all know that musicians practice constantly and play every piece imperfectly many times before they perform. So why should be painters expect to be perfect without continuously practicing and making mistakes? (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Optimism category:
Because most artists are "sensitive" in every sense of the word, if you don't take charge, negative emotion can ruin you. (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Pastels category:
Pastels are so forgiving. (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Patience category:
I don't have the patience for the painstaking work of photorealism. If I tried, I would end up playing with my fingers and mumbling incoherently in the corner. (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Plein Air category:
I don't like most of what I paint outdoors, but the process is the point; and I know it will make me a better painter. (Gaye Adams)
Gaye Adams - From the Texture category:
Once I've got a good structure underneath and put the tones in the right places, all I have to do is suggest texture thoughtfully... and the viewer's eye will fill in the rest. (Gaye Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. (George Matthew Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Encouragement category:
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. (George Matthew Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Enthusiasm category:
Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. (George Matthew Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Happiness category:
If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. (George Matthew Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Interest category:
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. (George Matthew Adams)
George Matthew Adams - From the Opportunity category:
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. (George Matthew Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Artists category:
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Chaos category:
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Editing category:
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Knowledge category:
They know enough who know how to learn. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Optimism category:
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Order category:
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Philosophy category:
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Plagiarism category:
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Silence category:
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Taste category:
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Teaching category:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Words category:
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Jack Adams - From the Advice category:
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. (Jack Adams)
James Truslow Adams - From the Freedom category:
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. (James Truslow Adams)
John Adams - From the Freedom category:
-2nd U.S. president
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. (John Adams)
John Adams - From the Genius category:
Genius is sorrow's child. (John Adams)
John Adams - From the Greatness category:
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? (John Adams)
John Adams - From the Poetry category:
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. (John Adams)
John Adams - From the Politics category:
-2nd U.S. President
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. (John Adams)
John Quincy Adams - From the Complaining category:
-from the musical 1776...
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care? (John Quincy Adams)
John Quincy Adams - From the Immortality category:
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. (John Quincy Adams)
John Quincy Adams - From the Leadership category:
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. (John Quincy Adams)
John Quincy Adams - From the Perseverance category:
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy Adams)
Loreen Adams - From the Portraiture category:
Some portraits you work harder at than others to really capture the soul of the subject. Some give you a stronger feeling. (Loreen Adams)
Mark Adams - From the Abstraction category:
We aren't just eyes; we have memories, feelings. Emotional content is what makes life whole, and a lot of abstraction has no connection with people... (Mark Adams)
Mark Adams - From the Choices category:
Nature possesses far more variation and invention than we do... for an artist, it's a matter of seeing and choosing. (Mark Adams)
Mark Adams - From the Style category:
Style is something that should come in spite of itself... Because you've worked, you've looked. (Mark Adams)
Mark Adams - From the Understanding category:
People relate to things, objects... The important thing is to create something that relates to people. (Mark Adams)
Norman Adams - From the Understanding category:
I am not interested in the landscape in the topographical sense. I am only interested in painting one's feelings, strong feelings, passionate feelings. One paints in order to try to understand a bit about life and about oneself. (Norman Adams)
Peter Adams - From the Contemplation category:
The quiet time that I spend in my studio allows me the opportunity to contemplate the poetic essence of a subject. (Peter Adams)
Peter Adams - From the Gratitude category:
I feel so fortunate to be able to quickly get out of the city and into wilderness... and an abundance of natural beauty. (Peter Adams)
Peter Adams - From the Plein Air category:
Ninety percent of my plein air landscape paintings are completed on location, but it's the last ten percent that I do at my studio easel that is my personal interpretation as an artist. (Peter Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Belief category:
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Choices category:
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Collaboration category:
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Danger category:
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Effort category:
If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Ego category:
I get mail; therefore I am. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Encouragement category:
One "oh shit" can erase a thousand "attaboys." (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Failure category:
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Freedom category:
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Generosity category:
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Humanity category:
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Influence category:
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Information category:
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems... The safest approach is to remove all useful information. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Knowledge category:
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Leadership category:
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Mistakes category:
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Mysteries category:
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Problems category:
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Questions category:
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? (Scott Adams)
Scott Adams - From the Technology category:
Technology: No Place for Wimps! (Scott Adams)
Tim Adams - From the Desire category:
Thoughts unspoken die unborn. The same goes for your paintings. If the desire lies within you, paint your heart out! But above all, keep developing because that's where real life begins. (Tim Adams)
Anne Adams Robertson Massie - From the Spontaneity category:
The most difficult part of creation is keeping that freshness, that spontaneity that looks as if a painting "just happened". (Anne Adams Robertson Massie)
Anne Adams Robertson Massie - From the Technique category:
The more I paint, the more I appreciate that art reflects one's own life – that technique is not nearly as important as awareness and meaning and feeling. (Anne Adams Robertson Massie)
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