Objects Quotes - Page 8

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Theology is a subject without an object

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

The present eye praises the present object.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

No better love than love with no object

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

The object of war is to survive it.