Object Quotes

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Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back… — Joe Bradley
When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that… — Kate Bush
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its… — George Nakashima
Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. — Confucius
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident… — Quentin Crisp
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being. — Hakim
The book. Calming object. Held in the hand. — Maira Kalman
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you… — Diane von Furstenberg
People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they… — Michael Coren
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the… — Joseph Campbell
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people. — Aleister Crowley
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection… — Wu Guanzhong
Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective. — Albert Paley
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize… — Marcus Aurelius
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. — Winston Churchill
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God… — C.S. Lewis
Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of… — James Anthony Froude

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