I don't fetishize objects.

I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it…

— Leigh Bardugo

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

— Tina Fey

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.

— Meg Wolitzer

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just…

— Phil Elvrum

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

— Dan Colen

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

— Simone Weil

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

— Rumi

How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me…

— Rush Limbaugh

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter