Robert Adams

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

— Robert Adams

The only burden you have ever had is your mind.

— Robert Adams

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

— Robert Adams

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

— Robert Adams

History does not unfold: it piles up.

— Robert Adams

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

— Robert Adams

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns…

— Robert Adams

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

— Robert Adams

“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

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

— Robert Adams

Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto…

— Robert Adams

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with…

— Robert Adams

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

— Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

— Robert Adams

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For…

— Robert Adams

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition…

— Robert Adams

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I…

— Robert Adams

What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose…

— Robert Adams

We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we…

— Robert Adams

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not…

— Robert Adams

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do…

— Robert Adams

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…

— Robert Adams

“We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would…

— Robert Adams

“The following tale is a fantasy, pure and simple. It is a flight of sheer imagination. It contains no hidden meanings, and…

— Robert Adams

There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into…

— Robert Adams

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest…

— Robert Adams

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the…

— Robert Adams

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when…

— Robert Adams

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

— Robert Adams

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself…

— Robert Adams

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

— Robert Adams

“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

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

— Robert Adams

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

— Robert Adams

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

— Robert Adams

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.

— Robert Adams

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

— Robert Adams

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

— Robert Adams

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

— Robert Adams