"Of all the sacred places on the coast,……" — Robert Adams
"Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain."
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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