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
Robert Adams quotes about
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.
land grace matter
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
now-and-then
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
cameras individual cases
With a camera, one has to love individual cases.
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.
lakes noisy
A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything
support records world
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.
what-matters way belief
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.
photography art discovery
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
photography firsts photographer
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
photography thinking landscape
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
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 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.
lonely trying photographer
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point where you feel that you have something that is your own. And if you don't find an audience for it, you are going to burst.