Objects Quotes

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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. — Jeff Koons
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. — Diane Kruger
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against… — James Madison
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond… — Nelson Mandela
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. — Ashley Montagu
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. — Carroll O'Connor
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P.J. O'Rourke
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. — Camille Paglia
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! — Camille Paglia
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves… — Blaise Pascal
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. — Jean Paul
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels. — Lisa Marie Presley
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. — Rumi
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings… — Jerry Saltz

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