Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
Robert AdamsAll land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
Robert AdamsNo place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Robert AdamsOnly when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.
Robert AdamsI 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.
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