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Robert Adams quotes

American Photographer May 8, 1937

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How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? ...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality... Robert Adams
Robert Adams quote: "No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and..."
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the 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. Robert Adams
Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through. Robert Adams
Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of the picture, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Creation, suggests that evil is not final. Robert Adams
We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been merciful if Columbus had been wrong and the world flat, with an edge from which to fall, rather than a circular cage that returns us to our mistakes. The geography seems hopeless. Robert Adams
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute. Robert Adams
If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves. Robert Adams
Robert Adams quote: "Television probably has become the most evocative, widely..."
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. Robert Adams

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