Artifacts Quotes - Page 5

• To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Littles, Dimensions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

  Jimenez Lai

  Believe, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

  Jon Landau

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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• I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Cities, Catholic, Mosques

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• Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

  Alison Lurie

  Travel, Zoos, Animal

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• I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

  George W. S. Trow

  Mainstream, Made, Ability

  George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.9, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

  Tim Crane

  Wine, Made, Made It

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• Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.

  David Bentley Hart

  Atheist, Errors, Agency

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• I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Littles, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Writing, Grandmother, White

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• [The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in their ongoing activities. System design, it follows, must include not only the design of innovative technologies, but their artful integration with the rest of the social and material world.

  Lucy Suchman

  Technology, People, Design

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• [Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Years, Design, Personality

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• Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Knowledge, Science, Engineering

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• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

  David Adjaye

  Opportunity, Agency, Transformation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully
  and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

  W. H. Auden

  Motorcycle, Tables

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Knives, Two

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Dirty, Secret, Rising

  "Phantom Profits Will Vanish As The Dollar Strengthens" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.

  Guity Novin

  Art, Mean, Law

  Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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