Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and… — 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
No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because… — 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
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
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For… — 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
