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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
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New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!
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Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful. Yet in reality the mind does not exist. There is no mind. There is no such thing as a mind. So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.
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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.
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We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.
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I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.
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Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.
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There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.
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When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.
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The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.
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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?
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History does not unfold: it piles up.
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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
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You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.
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I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
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Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
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When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
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A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything
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