Objects Quotes
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.
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.
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.
I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.