Objects Quotes
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I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.
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.
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.
To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.
Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades.
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.