--- title: "10 Way Quotes By Robert Adams" description: "10 Way quotes by Robert Adams. Plus more from Robert Adams and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/robert-adams-4362_affection_art-depends-on-there-being-affection-in_2437044.jpg" --- > [Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/art-depends-on-there-being-affection-in-its-creator-s-life-and-an/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/robert-adams-4362_affection_art-depends-on-there-being-affection-in_2437044.jpg) > [C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/c-s-lewis-admitted-when-he-was-asked-to-set-forth-his-beliefs-that-he/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/robert-adams-4362_belief_c-s-lewis-admitted-when-he-was-asked-to_2232783.jpg) > [I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/i-began-making-pictures-because-i-wanted-to-record-what-supports-hope/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/robert-adams-4362_beauty_i-began-making-pictures-because-i-wanted_321562.png) > [There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/there-is-only-one-i-actually-that-i-is-consciousness-when-you-follow/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa7/robert-adams-4362_consciousness_there-is-only-one-i-actually-that-i-is-c_1935672.png) > [There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/there-s-something-within-you-that-knows-what-to-do-there-is-a-power/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/robert-adams-4362_care_there-s-something-within-you-that-knows_1245376.jpg) > [My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/my-first-show-at-moma-in-new-york-was-pictures-of-new-developments/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23c/robert-adams-4362_brutal_my-first-show-at-moma-in-new-york-was-pi_2237775.png) > [The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/the-only-way-you-will-ever-awaken-is-through-silence-not-through/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/387/robert-adams-4362_awaken_the-only-way-you-will-ever-awaken-is-thr_2196513.png) > [“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/how-can-we-hope-after-all-to-see-a-tree-or-rock-or-clear-north-sky-if/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/robert-adams-4362_clear_how-can-we-hope-after-all-to-see-a-tree_3070336.png) > [I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/i-want-to-let-you-in-on-a-little-secret-there-are-no-problems-there/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/robert-adams-4362_about-yourself_i-want-to-let-you-in-on-a-little-secret_1858877.png) > [... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/if-we-consider-the-difference-between-william-henry-jackson-packing-2/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/robert-adams-4362_cameras_if-we-consider-the-difference-between-wi_2926085.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/robert-adams/#itemlist", "name": "10 Way Quotes By Robert Adams", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. 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