Objects Quotes - Page 6

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.