Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition… — 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
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
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire… — 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
Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works. — 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
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 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
