“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a… — 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
Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something… — 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
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
We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we… — 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
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
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
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you… — 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
