Objects Quotes
1197 quotes by 854 authors
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Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
— Antony Gormley
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[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
— Michael Hansmeyer
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The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and…
— Alistair Begg
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Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and…
— Paola Antonelli
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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing…
— Leon M. Lederman
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The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of…
— Charles Willson Peale
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Ye are God's building -- All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects of mercy, and…
— Thomas Boston
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I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
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In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
— Eugen Herrigel
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There is no separate, inside self and no separate outside object, other or world. Rather, there is one seamless, intimate totality, always changing when viewed…
— Rupert Spira
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Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling…
— Victor Papanek
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There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects…
— Andrea Seigel
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined…
— Stephen Tobolowsky
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I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.
— Karim Rashid
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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the…
— Claude Monet
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need…
— Dalai Lama
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In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is…
— Fritjof Capra
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the…
— Will Cuppy
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When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody…
— Bill Veeck
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