Objects Quotes

• I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

  Mike Mills

  Ideas, Pieces, Inanimate Objects

  "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2005.

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• One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Children, Order, Law

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Knowing, Reason

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• Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

  Ann Patchett

  Sight, Goal, Focus

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

  Birthday, Grows, My Birthday

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE

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• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Photography, Stories, Literature

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Creating

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• It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

  Andre Breton

  Roles, Ends, Symbolic

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• Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Loss, Air

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• I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

  Matthea Harvey

  Quality, Inanimate Objects, Tendencies

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

  Magha

  Energy, Veils, Mildness

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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• I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

  Eyvind Kang

  Sound, Treats, Penetrate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

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• You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Sex, Screens

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• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Fire, Glasses

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, World, Mass

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Dog, Grandmother

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• Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Lonely, Moving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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