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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.
Robert Adams
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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
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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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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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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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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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