Objects Quotes

• I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

  Mike Mills

  Ideas, Pieces, Inanimate Objects

  "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Children, Order, Law

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Knowing, Reason

  8 Copy quote

• Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

  Ann Patchett

  Sight, Goal, Focus

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

  37 Copy quote

• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

  Birthday, Grows, My Birthday

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Photography, Stories, Literature

  8 Copy quote

• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Creating

  80 Copy quote

• It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

  Andre Breton

  Roles, Ends, Symbolic

  9 Copy quote

• Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Loss, Air

  4 Copy quote

• I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

  Matthea Harvey

  Quality, Inanimate Objects, Tendencies

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

  Magha

  Energy, Veils, Mildness

  8 Copy quote

• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

  20 Copy quote

• I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

  Eyvind Kang

  Sound, Treats, Penetrate

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

  15 Copy quote

• You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Sex, Screens

  4 Copy quote

• I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind." "On." I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. "Go on, please.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Wind, Names

  4 Copy quote

• Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

  Rick Riordan

  Needs, Said, Wells

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.295, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

  Michel Foucault

  Art, House, Experts

  266 Copy quote

• I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Plato, Thinking, Ideas

  Werner Heisenberg (1970). “Natural law and the structure of matter”

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Doe, Injustice

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

  10 Copy quote

  Show source