Objects Quotes

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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion… — Federico Fellini
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and… — Maria Tatar
In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there is the space… — Steve Vai
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique,… — Georg Baselitz
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws… — Martin Kippenberger
Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial… — Stephen Harper
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.… — William J. Brennan
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. — Peter Benchley
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph,… — Martin Parr
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the… — Carl Theodor Dreyer
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature… — Marcus Aurelius
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking. — Jasper Johns
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are… — John Selden
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which… — Johannes Peter Muller
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of… — Wynn Bullock
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or… — Fritjof Capra
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without… — Germaine Greer
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave

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