Objects Quotes
1197 quotes by 854 authors
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You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are…
— Antonio Damasio
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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a…
— Antony Gormley
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I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship…
— Arthur Ganson
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I love the fact that very often the most everyday objects take on another level of importance.
— Nick Veasey
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off…
— Tom Chatfield
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To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of…
— Robert Irwin
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Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as…
— Arne Glimcher
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I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams…
— Joseph Gatt
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The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures,…
— Herta Muller
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The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than…
— Raymond Loewy
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
— Wole Soyinka
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I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their…
— Martin Parr
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used…
— Nate Berkus
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Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
— David Perlmutter
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We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I…
— Nicholas Haslam
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
— William Wilberforce
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A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by…
— Henry Grunwald
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the…
— Okky Madasari
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