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
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
Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will… — Robert Adams Bigger Copy Share Image
Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it… — Robert Adams Billboards 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
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 Body 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
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
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
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams Knows 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
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because… — Robert Adams Art 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
“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 Teacher 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
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
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Art 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
Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of… — Robert Adams Consciousness 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
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Appearance Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Community Copy Share Image
Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you.… — Robert Adams Absolutes Copy Share Image
Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in… — Robert Adams Acknowledge Copy Share Image
