Objects Quotes
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
Brigham Young
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
Rudolf Arnheim
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
Allan Kaprow
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Seneca the Younger
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Rene Girard
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George Clooney
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe
Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.
Amanda Coplin
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens
It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
Courtney Milan
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
Wendy Wasserstein
