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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.
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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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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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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I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
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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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Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.
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Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.
Robert Adams
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'
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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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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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We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.
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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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With a camera, one has to love individual cases.
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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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Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
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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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All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
Robert Adams
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
Robert Adams
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
Robert Adams
