Best Robert Adams Quotes

Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually. — Robert Adams

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. — Robert Adams

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. — Robert Adams

History does not unfold: it piles up. — Robert Adams

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue. — Robert Adams

Let go of the thoughts,
let go of the mind,
let go of everything.
Let go!
Drop it!
Drop everything.
Hold onto nothing. — Robert Adams

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams

Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light. — Robert Adams

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything — Robert Adams

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? — Robert Adams

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

The only burden you have ever had is your mind. — Robert Adams

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage. — Robert Adams

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty. — Robert Adams

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time. — Robert Adams

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. — Zane Stumpo

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation. — Robert Adams

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it. — Robert Adams

With a camera, one has to love individual cases. — Robert Adams

Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams — Robert Lynn Asprin

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth. — Robert Adams

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works. — Robert Adams

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. — Robert Adams

Do not look for signs.
Do not look for experiences.
Do not be so complicated.
Become like a child.
See everything with awe. — Robert Adams