We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time. — 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 Darkroom Copy Share Image
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Innovation Copy Share Image
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Appreciation Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going… — Robert Adams Art 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
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do… — Robert Adams Achievement Copy Share Image
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They… — Robert Adams Brutal Copy Share Image
Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it… — Robert Adams Billboards Copy Share Image
Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself.… — 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 only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Art 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 Photography Copy Share Image
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care… — Robert Adams Care Copy Share Image
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into… — Robert Adams Consciousness Copy Share Image
“We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“The following tale is a fantasy, pure and simple. It is a flight of sheer imagination. It contains no hidden meanings, and… — Robert Adams Books 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
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue. — 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 Art Copy Share Image
You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose… — Robert Adams Art 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
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we… — Robert Adams Conclusion Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Analysis Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere,… — Robert Adams Heart Copy Share Image
“Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
“The issue is not just that land developers have unbalanced the ecology and made much of the geography ugly. What strikes so… — Robert Adams Environment Copy Share Image
