"I thought I was taking pictures of things……" — Robert Adams
"I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious."
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78 Quotes by Robert Adams
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- I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that…
- Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to…
- If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation.…
- There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who…
- When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that…
- Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their…
- ...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so…
- Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring,…
- The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent…
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