Objects Quotes - Page 3

If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how groups of small objects, when they are well arranged, become important and effective. Remember that repetition is a form of emphasis. Collect what you will, but see to it that you arrange your hobby to its best advantage.

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

The object of power is power.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.

Poetry's object is truth.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.