Robert Adams Quotes About Art

• No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

  Robert Adams

  Art, College, Wonderful

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• Lo único que distingue al fotógrafo de los demás son sus imágenes: sólo ellas son la base de nuestro especial interés por él. Si las imágenes no pueden entenderse sin conocer detalles de la vida privada del artista, entonces es una razón para criticarlas; el arte mayor, por definición, puede ser independiente de su creador.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Independent, Knowing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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

  Robert Adams

  Appreciation, Art, Silence

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Art, Landscape

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• ...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Pain, Goal

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell, David Featherstone, Robert Adams (1986). “EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston”

• ...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Important, Concrete

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

• . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Art, Discovery

• 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.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Art, Doe

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

• Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Thinking, Goal

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible.

  Robert Adams

  Dog, Art, Knees

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

• La historia del arte está llena de personas que no vivieron lo suficiente para disfrutar de un público comprensivo, y su miseria argumenta que la crítica debe intentar acelerar la justicia.

  Robert Adams

  Arte, Largo, Gente

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• La belleza, que admito perseguir, es una palabra muy sospechosa entre muchos en el mundo del arte. Pero no creo que se pueda vivir sin ella. Es la confirmación del sentido de la vida.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Photography, Life, and Beauty". "Art21" Interview, art21.org.

• When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Art Is, Defined

• 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?

  Robert Adams

  Art, Trying, Doe

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

• La filosofía puede renunciar con demasiada facilidad a los detalles de la experiencia... muchos escritores y pintores han demostrado que pensar mucho sobre lo que es o debe ser el arte arruina el poder de escribir o pintar.

  Robert Adams

  Arte, Filosofía, Escritura

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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