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> [Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/silence-is-after-all-the-context-for-the-deepest-appreciation-of-art/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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## More by Robert Adams

> [Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/among-the-most-compelling-truths-in-some-of-the-early-photographs-is/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/philosophy-can-forsake-too-easily-the-details-of-experience-many/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-experience-of-life-that-you-and-i-have-is-pretty-much-a-jigsaw/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/everything-is-simplicity-there-is-nothing-to-do-there-is-no-place-to/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/when-art-is-defined-by-damien-hirst-and-jeff-koons-you-ve-got-a/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/when-photographers-get-beyond-copying-the-achievements-of-others-or/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/a-lake-that-is-noisy-cannot-reflect-anything/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/no-one-though-has-to-go-to-college-to-make-or-understand-or-enjoy-art/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/still-photographs-often-differ-from-life-more-by-their-silence-than/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/almost-all-photographers-have-incurred-large-expenses-in-the-pursuit/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/you-ve-always-been-free-you-ve-always-been-bright-and-shining/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-thing-that-keeps-you-scrambling-over-the-rocks-risking-snakes-and/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/why-is-form-beautiful-because-i-think-it-helps-us-confront-our-worst/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/all-land-no-matter-what-has-happened-to-it-has-over-it-a-grace-an/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-only-things-that-distinguish-the-photographer-from-everybody-else/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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