Differences Quote by David Salle

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will…

— Kazimir Malevich

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred…

— Robert Barry

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

— Georges Braque

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

— James J. Gibson

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to…

— James J. Gibson

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the…

— Jesse Ball

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their…

— Ernst Mach

The idea is more important than the object.

— Damien Hirst

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

— Edmund Husserl

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing…

— David First

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it…

— Robert Barry