Robert Adams
Robert Adams
American philosopher best known for his thoughts on metaphysics, religion, and morality.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
hospital local stroke
That local hospital isn't a stroke center, but we have one here, and we have a telemedicine connection.
matter party
There will always be an opposing party or person to an idea no matter what it is.
advocating drink evidence ready
There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either.
wrong
For some people, there must be. I'm just the wrong guy.
photography art records
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.
summer children night
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.
land grace matter
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
art justice long
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.
photography silence compelling
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
believe sight years
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.
now-and-then
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
art philosophy writing
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.
art trying three
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?
careers trying might
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.