It all depends on what you visualize. 

- Ansel Adams

Your vision wants its own voice, not someone else's.

- David duChemin

Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (Voices That Matter)

One does not for long wrestle a view camera in the wind and heat and cold just to illustrate a philosophy. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor. 

- Robert Adams

Technical perfection is not the goal of photography: seeing life is. 

- Ellis Vener

You see fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have then judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled. 

- Burk Uzzle

It all depends on what you visualize. 

- Ansel Adams

I also try to respond to the light in terms of what it's really trying to show in and of itself. I try to use the light to its best advantage. Thus, the subject matter is not the only consideration.

- Huntington Witherill

A photograph is not an accident—it is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

- Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

- Ansel Adams

Art and picture making with a camera are fundamentally the same, requiring such essential qualities as good taste, beauty of line, and perfect juxtaposition of tone, together with atmosphere that stirs the emotion. With vision and imagination in the mind of the operator, the most exquisite results can be obtained with detail that no other medium can record with such precision. 

- Gilbert Adams