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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
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We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
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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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Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
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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.
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Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
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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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If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
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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.
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There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.
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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.
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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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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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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 job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.
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Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.
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Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Robert Adams
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May 8, 1937
(age 86)
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