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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Unfold
History
Doe
Piles

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Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
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I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
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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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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
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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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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 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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Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
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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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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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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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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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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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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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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).
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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
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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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With a camera, one has to love individual cases.
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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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A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything
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