The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain,… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the… — William Feindel Copy Share Image
A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl… — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in… — Bernard d'Espagnat Copy Share Image
I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each… — William Gifford Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object.… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image