“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?” TryingDoeArtArtistThreeAskingPhotographerAppropriateModest Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful. Yet in reality the mind does not exist. There is no mind. There is no such thing as a mind. So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.” IfsTryingMindDoeRealityWinningPowerfulSilenceWatchesGreaterBiggerWitnessVery PowerfulPower Of The Mind Author:Robert Adams
“When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.” KnowsWorldFirstsDoeAchievementPhotographyPhotographerPhotographCreatorRevelationsCopying Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“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.” DoeArtWholeFactsForgetRecordsCreationProvePhotography Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.” WorldDoeFeelingsSpeakDivineAwakeningImmortalityBlissAcquire Author:Robert Adams