All Robert Adams Quotes
- Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates… Ask
- Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince… Any
- Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you… Admit
- We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation. Cannot Empty
- At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than… Accomplish
- Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the… All
- You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. Been
- Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future, that is all… Absolute
- Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or… Carry
- You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world… Alone
- Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. Evocative
- When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. Art
- I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the… Along
- I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. Disconcertingly
- My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments… Along
- 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 don't… Box
- You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out.… Artist
- I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things… Asked
- Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth… Appropriate
- Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something… Artist
- Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to… Art
- Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? Funny
- The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for… Accounts
- Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will… All
- What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects… Artist