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Robert Adams Quotes

With a camera, one has to love individual cases Picture Quote #1

Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don’t listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness Picture Quote #1

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time Picture Quote #1

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything Picture Quote #1

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious Picture Quote #1

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it Picture Quote #1

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves Picture Quote #1

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty Picture Quote #1

There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet Picture Quote #1

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself Picture Quote #1

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick Picture Quote #1

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No matter how many times I tell you this, you’re still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing Picture Quote #1

Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue - why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks? Picture Quote #1

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion Picture Quote #1

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film Picture Quote #1

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have Picture Quote #1

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? Picture Quote #1

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We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation Picture Quote #1

The only burden you have ever had is your mind Picture Quote #1

There’s something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you’ve got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine Picture Quote #1

The only freedom we’ve got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth Picture Quote #1

...art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion Picture Quote #1

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace Picture Quote #1

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With a camera, one has to love individual cases (Robert Adams Quotes) Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don’t listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness (Robert Adams Quotes) You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time. (Robert Adams Quotes) A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything (Robert Adams Quotes) Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse (Robert Adams Quotes) 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 (Robert Adams Quotes) I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious (Robert Adams Quotes) Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it (Robert Adams Quotes) No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves (Robert Adams Quotes) Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty (Robert Adams Quotes) There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet (Robert Adams Quotes) Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning (Robert Adams Quotes) 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 (Robert Adams Quotes) 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 (Robert Adams Quotes) My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money (Robert Adams Quotes) 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? (Robert Adams Quotes) Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself (Robert Adams Quotes) Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick (Robert Adams Quotes) No matter how many times I tell you this, you’re still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing (Robert Adams Quotes) Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue - why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks? (Robert Adams Quotes) . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion (Robert Adams Quotes) No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. (Robert Adams Quotes) Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have (Robert Adams Quotes) Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? (Robert Adams Quotes) We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation (Robert Adams Quotes) The only burden you have ever had is your mind (Robert Adams Quotes) There’s something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you’ve got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine (Robert Adams Quotes) The only freedom we’ve got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth (Robert Adams Quotes) ...art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion (Robert Adams Quotes) The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace (Robert Adams Quotes)

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