Quotes from Robert Adams

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

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.

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.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

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?

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

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.