Object Quotes

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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it… — Samuel Alexander
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new… — Peter Behrens
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience. — Josef Albers
The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional… — Eva Zeisel
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down. — Darren McCarty
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it. — Janet Fish
It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's… — Wally Amos
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire… — Eduard Hanslick
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic… — Richard Fortey
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. — John Nelson Darby
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain… — Frank Lentricchia
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become… — Tenzin Palmo
The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness… — Richard Nelson Bolles
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to… — Leah Hager Cohen
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a… — Harold Rosenberg
The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it… — Lewis Buzbee
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it… — Susan Griffin
The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south. — Lance Morrow

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