Objects Quotes - Page 10

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

The Text is not a definitive object.

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Morality is the object of government.

I object to every single thing you just said.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

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

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.