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

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
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You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
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Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.
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Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.
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Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.
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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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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.
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You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.
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. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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