“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.” WorldWellsBodyPastChangeDifferencesWorryLearningFutureQuietEternalWitnessStillness 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
“...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.” WorldFeltRecordsOughtPhotographyPhotographerAppearanceFaithfulContradictionWholenessTorn Author:Robert Adams
“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
“I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. Problems just mean that the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.” WorldWayWantShouldMeanLittlesWholeProblemRealityTruthTodayUniverseForgetSecretConsciousnessAwarenessPositiveBecomingPurePurityAbout YourselfNo ProblemExpandingUnfoldingPast Present Future Author:Robert Adams
“Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.” ThinkingWorldArtPursuitSuspectsArt WorldConfirmationMeaning Life Author:Robert Adams
“You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.” ThinkingWorldMindImaginationAnswersThis WorldMind Your Own Author:Robert Adams
“I 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.” IfsWorldWayWantedSupportRecordsMysteryEvidenceCamerasCaughtTruthfulBeing TruthfulBeauty Of The World Author:Robert Adams
