Objects Quotes
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
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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.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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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.
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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
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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.
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Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
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An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
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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?
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
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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.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
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Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.
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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.
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
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You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.
