"...combining the concrete and the universal is at……" — Robert Adams
"...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important."
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78 Quotes by Robert Adams
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying…
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that…
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Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to…
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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation.…
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There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who…
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When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that…
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their…
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...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so…
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Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring,…
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The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent…
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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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