All Robert Adams Quotes
- No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Boredom
- All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you… Acquire
- I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of… Among
- Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it. All
- If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not… Account
- There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as… Art
- When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… Accidental
- Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… All
- ...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest… Appearance
- Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and… Affection
- The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This… Catalogue
- In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… Anesthesia
- ... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his… Arrive
- We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. Already Know
- ...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop… Art
- ...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. Art
- No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best -… Art
- Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. Among
- Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… Any
- Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. Architecture
- The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of… Absurd
- . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. Art
- Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then… Allowed
- We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things,… Coming
- Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. Beauty