Objects Quotes
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
William James
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
Octavio Paz
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
Mercy Otis Warren
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor
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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
Rashid Johnson
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese
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Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
William H. Gass
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Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
Karim Rashid
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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Jose Rizal
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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
Alvar Aalto
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An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
Chris Marker
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
Sebastiao Salgado
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If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
William Shenstone
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Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
Vladimir Prelog
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Jung
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
Nate Berkus
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For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Vittorio Alfieri