Object Quotes

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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. — Herman Melville
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another… — John Breaux
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. Itâ€™s not about the object, and itâ€™s… — Jeff Koons
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even… — Jim Rohn
Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will… — Ernest Holmes
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path… — Thomas Jefferson
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. — Sherwood Anderson
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not… — Martin Luther
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller. — Sebastiao Salgado
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my… — Gary Lucas
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. — Henry Ford
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of… — H. L. Mencken
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process. — John Cage
People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the… — R C Sproul
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest… — Claude Monet
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. — Thomas Jefferson
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged… — Susan Sontag
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome… — Stephen King
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? — Michel Foucault
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a… — Andrew Wyeth

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