Banality Quote by Robert Adams

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

— Robert Adams

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

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…

— Robert Adams

“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just…

— Robert Adams

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

— Robert Adams

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

— Robert Adams

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best…

— Robert Adams

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…

— Robert Adams

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few…

— Robert Adams

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

— Robert Adams

The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment…

— Robert Adams