Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — 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
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams 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
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — 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
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems… — 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 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
