Objectifying Quotes

• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, Musical

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• The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Understanding, Existence, Mythology

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, as translated by Schubert M. Ogden, p.10, 1984.

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Errors, Action, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.

  Nate Parker

  Attitude, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself.

  George Pattison

  School, Kyoto, Unity

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what I was doing. In order to think about things as a writer you have to objectify your experience. I couldn't have been enacting that experience if I was objectifying it.

  Melissa Febos

  Divorce, Thinking, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Offering, Curiosity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is the novel I want to write. And when you're done you need to think: This is what the novel I wanted to write feels like and reads like and looks like. Other people might call it sweeping or small, but it's the book you chose.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

  Martha Wainwright

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

  Keli Goff

  Girl, Sex, Party

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  People, Would Be, Half

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• Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Philosophy, Yield, Age

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Might, Problem

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.

  Liu Dan

  Eye, Cameras, Lenses

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• The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Real, Character, World

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 10, 1984.

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• The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

  Burton Silverman

  Unique, Self, Portraits

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• When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.

  Whitney Cummings

  Sex, Women, Writing

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• I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

  Emilio Estevez

  Guy, Problem

  "A Tale of Four Brothers / Actors Estevez, Sheen play S.F. porn kings Jim and Artie Mitchell in `Rated X'" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2000.

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• I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.

  Olivia Wilde

  Sexy, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

  Ethan Hawke

  Thinking, Way, Persons

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 17, 2004.

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