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Robert Adams, born on May 8, 1937, is an American photographer known for his profound depiction of the urban and rural landscapes of the American Midwest. His work focuses on the impact of human activity on the natural environment.

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Famous Robert Adams Quotes

“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.”

Mind Heart Soul Self Care Desire Silence Take Care Self Realization Realization Your Soul

Author:Robert Adams

“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.”

Children Stills Night Sound Silence Doors Subjects Summer Sticks Photograph Landscape Snaps Garage Moths Summer Nights

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“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.”

Ifs Trying Mind Doe Reality Winning Powerful Silence Watches Greater Bigger Witness Very Powerful Power Of The Mind

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“It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.”

Trying Problem Silence

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“Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.”

Silence Photography Photograph Compelling Implications

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.”

Way Facts Hurt Simple Silence Letting Go Concepts Dogma Good And Bad Sorting Sorting Out

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

Art Important Silence Photographer Appreciation Interiors Silence Is Evaluation

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

About the Author

Born: May 8, 1937
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 113

Books & Sources

Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and ReviewsRelated source material

Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional valuesRelated source material

Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert AdamsRelated source material

Along some rivers: photographs and conversationsRelated source material

Aspects of American photography, 1976: April 1-April 30, 1976, Gallery 210Related source material

EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward WestonRelated source material

Paul Strand: essays on his life and workRelated source material

The new West: landscapes along the Colorado Front RangeRelated source material

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