Artist Quotes by Robert Adams

15 Artist quotes by Robert Adams

Robert Adams often turned the quiet of the desert into a meditation on space and light. These fifteen thoughts give a taste of his measured, almost lyrical approach to seeing the world through a painter’s eye.

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The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery…

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When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

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. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

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Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?…

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...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

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No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of…

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Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is…

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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…

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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the…

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Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.…

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What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose…

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Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each…

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The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest…

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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…

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Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

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“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just…

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A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

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No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best…

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Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…

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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…

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You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

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The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment…

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Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore…

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All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

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