Objects Quotes

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We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think… — Joko Beck
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the… — Stan Brakhage
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions… — Jack Abbott
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked… — Eugene Chadbourne
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. — Stephen Greenblatt
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have… — Aleksandar Hemon
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to… — Dave Hickey
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other. — Edmund Husserl
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when… — Steven Johnson
People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden… — Ken Jennings
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but… — Johannes Peter Muller
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. — John Maeda
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of… — Rudolf von Laban
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.… — Charles Jencks
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the… — W. Somerset Maugham
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch… — Aaron Siskind
Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be, — Jack Goldstein
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a… — Allan Kaprow

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