Objects Quotes

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To restore silence is the role of objects. — Samuel Beckett
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding… — Lyonel Feininger
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the… — Celia Thaxter
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or… — Zbigniew Herbert
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should… — Ingrid Newkirk
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe
If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects? — John Zorn
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with… — Nicolaus Copernicus
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever… — Henry Ward Beecher
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to… — Thomas Traherne
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the… — John Flavel
In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is… — Ron Kind
My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects. — Les Dawson
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things… — Wynn Bullock
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible… — Plato
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the… — Plato

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