The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“...if we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his cameras by mule, and the person stepping out of his… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought… — Robert Adams Copy Share
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that… — Robert Adams Copy Share
“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just… — Robert Adams Copy Share
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams Copy Share
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know… — Robert Adams Copy Share
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best… — Robert Adams Copy Share
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,… — Robert Adams Copy Share
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few… — Robert Adams Copy Share
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. — Robert Adams Copy Share
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment… — Robert Adams Copy Share
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore… — Robert Adams Copy Share
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty. — Robert Adams Copy Share
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.… — Robert Adams Copy Share
