Objects Quotes

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.