By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle;… — M. N. Roy Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
