The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.
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 AdamsAlmost 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 AdamsPart of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'
Robert AdamsWhat we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopperโs painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopperโs vision we see more.
Robert Adams