Author Quote by Washington Irving

“They are not objects. They are places, places where some little thing is about to come into being”

— Barbara Bolt

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader…

— Georges Cuvier

“It's incredible to me to think that all these objects can hold so much meaning, but at the end of the day they're objects…

— Julie Murphy

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”

— Rick Gekoski

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal

“We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.”

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“So next time you are browsing through an antique store, or next time you see an old chair or doll or book sitting on…

— Roger P. Mills

“It is not so much as to say that something has occured; but to describe the very essence of the occurance. One must take…

— Jason W. Blair

“Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for…

— Walter Benjamin

“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt…

— Richard Taylor