Objects Quotes

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By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. — Brian Eno
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know… — Florence Nightingale
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects. — Johannes Kepler
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self. — Krishnananda Saraswati
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is… — Ramana Maharshi
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly… — Robin Boyd
From the Nonphysical, you created you, and now from the physical, you continue to create - and we are nothing if we are not flow-ers… — Esther Hicks
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they… — Jim Steinman
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are… — Aristotle
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is… — Hannah More
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,… — Sam Abell
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken

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