Robert Adams Quote Explained: I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

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The only freedom we’ve got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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You’ve always been free. You’ve always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

Photographer

· USA

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

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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There is still time – in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

- Robert Adams

Photographer

· USA

I keep calling it the I-thought. It’s a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It’s a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

The only freedom we’ve got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

You’ve always been free. You’ve always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

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

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

There is still time – in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I think it’s pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain

I keep calling it the I-thought. It’s a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It’s a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

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