Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.


Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (ed. 1994)

Robert Adams Quotes

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price;...

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price;...

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price;...

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price;...