Object Quotes

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The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all… — Joshua Reynolds
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… — Eugene Delacroix
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those… — Eugene Delacroix
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts. — Fernand Leger
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. — Mary Parker Follett
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and… — Plotinus
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. — Rene Magritte
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better. — Rene Magritte
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. — Pierre Bonnard
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand,… — Eduard Hanslick
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as… — Wassily Kandinsky
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object… — Kazimir Malevich
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of… — Herbert Read
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of… — Kimon Nicolaides
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. — Roy Moore
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view,… — Simon Greenleaf
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it. — Wayne Thiebaud
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the… — Kay WalkingStick

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