Asking questions Quote by Jessica Stockholder

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

— Bill Luff

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else…

— Simone Weil

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

— Jean Dubuffet

I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.

— Michael Arden

The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is…

— Jacob Lawrence

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

— Alvar Aalto

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

— Don DeLillo

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that…

— Josh Holloway

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most of my work is in my mind.

— Ekta Kapoor

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

— Dan Colen