Objects Quotes

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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and… — Henri Bergson
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result… — Thomas Sowell
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. — Andre Breton
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can… — Eli Siegel
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. — Jules Michelet
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do… — Dorothea Lange
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and… — Joshua Reynolds
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those… — Eugene Delacroix
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. — Alain de Botton
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much… — Jean Dubuffet
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it… — Leon Battista Alberti
It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though… — Robert R. McCammon
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed… — Francois Guizot
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which… — Kazimir Malevich
When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to… — Isamu Noguchi
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation. — Herbert Read
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. — Kimon Nicolaides

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