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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life… — Jerry Saltz
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. — George Santayana
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have… — Siegfried Sassoon
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that… — L. Neil Smith
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. — Herbert Spencer
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. — Tom Stoppard
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. — Rabindranath Tagore
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes… — Margaret Thatcher
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and… — Elie Wiesel
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be… — James Wolcott
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is… — Chris Hardwick
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to… — Douglas Rushkoff
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it… — John F. Kennedy
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the… — Vladimir Nabokov
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates

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