Objects Quotes

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The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to… — Rose Macaulay
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present,… — Benjamin Franklin
A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the… — Joseph Addison
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,… — Thomas Jefferson
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer… — Jeanette Winterson
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and… — Pablo Picasso
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way… — Pablo Picasso
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. — William Shenstone
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it… — Wallace Stevens
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped… — Georges Braque
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… — Henri Matisse
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. — Georges Braque
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men… — John Fowles
One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come… — William Carlos Williams
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater

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