"The job of the photographer, in my view,……" — Robert Adams
"The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth."
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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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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at…
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... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping…
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More Catalogue Quotes
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When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas.…
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
— Italo Calvino
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with…
— Winston Churchill
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull…
— John Keats
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It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
— William Levada
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A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in…
— James Madison
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into…
— Richard Serra
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Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And…
— Rosalind Russell
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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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