Object Quotes

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An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz
Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste. — David Livingstone
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. — Jasper Johns
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes… — Henry Moore
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental… — William Sloane Coffin
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it. — Ivan Goncharov
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it… — Jasper Johns
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. — Michael Polanyi
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? — Max Perutz
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.… — Stella Gibbons
It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. — Bill Hicks
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. — Erwin Schrodinger
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,… — Lord Acton
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of… — Stan Brakhage
There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether… — Esther Hicks
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the… — Franz Rosenzweig

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