I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other. — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same... — Sergio Pinto Copy Share Image
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless;… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet… — Ashley Bickerton Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image