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
artist talking political
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.
artist trying records
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.
morning sunday artist
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.
photography thinking artist
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'
animals best captivity convinced lives putting rest taking wild
I'm not convinced that taking these animals that were from the wild and putting them into captivity for the rest of their lives is in their best interest.
advocating drink evidence ready
There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either.
kid wish
I wish every kid would take the SAT,
awful found
There's an awful lot out there who they haven't found and never will,
matter party
There will always be an opposing party or person to an idea no matter what it is.
accept building continued countries industries industry looked refused reliable shove throats vehicles
They refused to accept change. While automotive industries in other countries were building smaller, safer, more fuel-efficient and reliable vehicles, the American automotive industry looked the other way and continued to shove oversized, gas-guzzling vehicles down the throats of consumers.
hospital local stroke
That local hospital isn't a stroke center, but we have one here, and we have a telemedicine connection.
friendship point
There is no point in international friendship when the world doesn't care.
increasing itself kids means
What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.
famous mean people
Being famous doesn't mean much. Sure, you get photos, money, and popularity. But when you come to what people really want, they just want you to look bad.