Object Quotes

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I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique. — Alfred Stieglitz
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world… — Aaron Siskind
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. — Robert Mapplethorpe
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes… — Josef Sudek
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be… — Paul Strand
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and… — Roland Barthes
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is… — John Berger
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power… — Lord Acton
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. — John Amos Comenius
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the… — John Dewey
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the… — Paul Krugman
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it… — Suze Orman

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