Objects Quotes · Page 21

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern…

— Frank Smith

[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between…

— Sarah Ruhl

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

— Anonymous

My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or…

— Gerhard Richter

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to…

— Lionel Trilling

Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem…

— Mike Berenstain

The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the…

— Ada Lovelace

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take…

— Brian Eno

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of…

— Susan Sontag

Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit…

— Scipio Africanus

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is…

— William Sloane Coffin

As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most…

— Wynn Bullock

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

— Steven Sebring

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of…

— Steven Johnson

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’…

— Art Smith

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want…

— Claude Monet

What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we…

— Jean Dubuffet