Objects Quotes

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When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as… — Joseph Kosuth
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at… — Gary Yourofsky
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from… — Thomas Metzinger
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving… — Betye Saar
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We arenâ€™t merely objects of desire. — Sinead O'Connor
I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot… — Ivor Cutler
We donâ€™t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we donâ€™t think about the relations that that object embodies-… — Angela Davis
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes… — Arne Jacobsen
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. — James Madison
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. — Thomas Jefferson
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more… — James Madison
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
All objects lose by too familiar a view. — John Dryden
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this… — Karl Marx
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life… — Hannah Arendt
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade
I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas. — Sol LeWitt
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live. — Sol LeWitt
Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created… — Thom Yorke

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