The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of… — Plato Copy Share Image
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time,… — Arman Copy Share Image
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
