There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light. — Robert Adams Extraordinary Copy Share Image
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. — Robert Adams Free Copy Share Image
“You're born again, now, and all is glory and joy. This is what it means to be born again, to realize that… — Robert Adams Be here now Copy Share Image
“Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you… — Robert Adams Education Copy Share Image
Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with… — Robert Adams Awe Copy Share Image
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty. — Robert Adams Beauty Copy Share Image
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Architecture Copy Share Image
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Knows 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… — Robert Adams Boxes 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… — Robert Adams Children 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… — Robert Adams Absurd Copy Share Image
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something… — Robert Adams Able Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Art 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… — Robert Adams Achievement Copy Share Image
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care… — Robert Adams Care 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 Catalogues 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 Affection 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 Answers Copy Share Image
The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to… — Robert Adams Aspect Copy Share Image
“You never were the body and you will never be a body. You are pure awareness, the absolute reality. As you think… — Robert Adams Bad thing Copy Share Image
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere,… — Robert Adams Absolutes Copy Share Image
Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was… — Robert Adams Darkroom Copy Share Image
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams Appropriate Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Art 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage. — Robert Adams Accepting Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Compelling 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… — Robert Adams Audience Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
“We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would… — Robert Adams Wrong World Copy Share Image
I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the… — Robert Adams Beauty Copy Share Image
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance… — Robert Adams Accepting Copy Share Image
You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work,… — Robert Adams Can do Copy Share Image
“Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of… — Robert Adams Art Copy Share Image
