Object Quotes
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I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.
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I would say that the lens is a manipulation of an image. To me the photogram is a non-manipulation of the object and the interaction of the object with light and the direct recording of that. To me that’s pure photographic imagery. As soon as you have a lens, you’re reinterpreting the outside world.
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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
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I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Hope does not necessarily have to take an object ...
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
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An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That’s why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It’s as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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Know thyself; this is the great object.
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Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.
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Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.
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However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
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The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
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I believe that the ultimate object of all activities in a republic should be the development of the manhood of its citizens.
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An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
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Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
