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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
Discovery
Shapes
Disparities
Photography
Reconciled
Vision
Disparity
Art
Beneath
Confusion
Shape
Harmony

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We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.
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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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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
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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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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
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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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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
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Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.
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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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Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.
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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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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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You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.
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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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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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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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Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
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