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. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Art
Beneath
Confusion
Shape
Harmony
Discovery
Shapes
Disparities
Photography
Reconciled
Vision
Disparity

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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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You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
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Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.
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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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Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.
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The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
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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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We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.
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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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The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.
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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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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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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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Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
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At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.
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Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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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.
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The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.
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Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
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