I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes. — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear… — Jim Steinman Copy Share Image
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires. — Liz Marshall Copy Share Image
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I… — Edward H. Rulloff Copy Share Image
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image