Object Quotes
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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
Andrew Taylor Still
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Plato -
The object is freedom.
Anne Bogart -
I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
Willa Fitzgerald -
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
Alan Lee -
A motivation-encompassing attitude may have either a goal or a means as its object.
Alfred Mele -
He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.
Michael Baden
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
Gavin Turk -
To model an object is to possess it.
Pablo Picasso -
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
Whitney Chadwick -
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
Victor Hugo -
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
Thomas Carlyle
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People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.
Naoto Fukasawa -
Know thyself; this is the great object.
Seneca the Younger -
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle -
A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.
Riccardo Sabatini -
Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.
Brian Christian -
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel