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.
Robert AdamsYou've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
Robert AdamsWhen art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Robert AdamsPhilosophy can forsake too easily the details of experienceโฆ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.
Robert AdamsThe suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.
Robert Adams