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> [It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/it-s-in-the-silence-that-your-problems-just-dissolve-try-it-it-really/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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> [Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/henry-james-proposed-asking-of-art-three-modest-and-appropriate/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/robert-adams-4362_appropriate_henry-james-proposed-asking-of-art-three_383257.png)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/i-ve-been-so-lonely-trying-to-become-a-photographer-if-i-d-known-that/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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> [I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/i-have-asked-students-at-the-beginning-of-their-careers-what-things/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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> [The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-job-of-the-photographer-in-my-view-is-not-to-catalogue/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/robert-adams-4362_catalogues_the-job-of-the-photographer-in-my-view-i_648223.png)

> [Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/larry-schwarm-s-photographs-of-fire-on-the-prairie-are-so-compelling/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/robert-adams-4362_compelling_larry-schwarm-s-photographs-of-fire-on-t_2798117.png)

> [The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-history-of-art-is-filled-with-people-who-did-not-live-long-enough/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/robert-adams-4362_arguing_the-history-of-art-is-filled-with-people_2228543.png)

> [No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/no-matter-how-many-times-i-tell-you-this-you-re-still-thinking/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/robert-adams-4362_body_no-matter-how-many-times-i-tell-you-this_822035.png)

> [Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/part-of-the-difficulty-in-trying-to-be-both-an-artist-and-a/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b4/robert-adams-4362_art_part-of-the-difficulty-in-trying-to-be-b_2987457.jpg)

> [All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/all-these-years-you-ve-been-searching-and-looking-and-trying-to/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/robert-adams-4362_acquire_all-these-years-you-ve-been-searching-an_1734818.jpg)

> [Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/do-not-allow-your-thoughts-to-become-greater-than-you-no-matter-what/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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> [Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/never-try-to-stop-the-thoughts-if-you-try-to-stop-the-thoughts-they/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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## Other authors on Trying

## More by Robert Adams

> [Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/among-the-most-compelling-truths-in-some-of-the-early-photographs-is/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/philosophy-can-forsake-too-easily-the-details-of-experience-many/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-experience-of-life-that-you-and-i-have-is-pretty-much-a-jigsaw/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/everything-is-simplicity-there-is-nothing-to-do-there-is-no-place-to/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/when-art-is-defined-by-damien-hirst-and-jeff-koons-you-ve-got-a/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/when-photographers-get-beyond-copying-the-achievements-of-others-or/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/a-lake-that-is-noisy-cannot-reflect-anything/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/no-one-though-has-to-go-to-college-to-make-or-understand-or-enjoy-art/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/still-photographs-often-differ-from-life-more-by-their-silence-than/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/almost-all-photographers-have-incurred-large-expenses-in-the-pursuit/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/you-ve-always-been-free-you-ve-always-been-bright-and-shining/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-thing-that-keeps-you-scrambling-over-the-rocks-risking-snakes-and/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/why-is-form-beautiful-because-i-think-it-helps-us-confront-our-worst/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/all-land-no-matter-what-has-happened-to-it-has-over-it-a-grace-an/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

> [The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-only-things-that-distinguish-the-photographer-from-everybody-else/)

[Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/)

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