"Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it……" — Robert Adams
"Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning."
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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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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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