Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — 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 not know… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. — 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 your enjoyment… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
