Quotes About Objects

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light.

My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken.

Finally, communication seems to work wonders during a trip alone. Some sailors find ways to talk to inanimate objects assign them a personality and make them members of the crew. It is a great way to cope with loneliness and express your emotions.

Quantum objects may in principle have a number of observable properties, but we can't gather them all (Copenhagenists might in fact say 'elicit them') in a single go, because they can't all exist at once. And by gathering some we may scramble the values of others.

The most complex analyses grow beautifully simple as they become public objects.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

He cursed a little, not so much because he cared about the photographs as because he wanted to preserve his good spirits, his serotonin-rich mood, and to do this he needed a modicum of cooperation from the world of objects.

After Gary had given the enlargements their sour baths, he raised the lights and discovered that both prints were webbed over with peculiar yellow blotches. He cursed a little, not so much because he cared about the prints as because he wanted to preserve his good spirits, his serotonin-rich mood, and to do this he needed... cooperation from the world of objects.

Death lends everything a metaphoric imperative. Mundane objects become fetishes when the departed no longer need them, and breakfast conversations grow runic and wise from behind the shadows.

Le parole che definiscono i sentimenti sono molto vaghe; è meglio evitare il loro impiego e attenersi alle descrizioni degli oggetti, degli esseri umani e di se stessi, vale a dire alla descrizione fedele dei fatti.

All moving objects, creatures with souls and mechandise that goes spoiled are by no means viable investments (From my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih)

All moving objects, creatures with souls and mechandise that goes spoiled are by no means viable investments (From the wisdome of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih)

the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use

Každý kus nábytku, každá v?c, každý p?edm?t vypráví p?íhody, historii rodiny. Byt není nikdy hotový: vyvíjí se s námi a my v n?m.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like a gambler throwing dice. The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor of "decoration." Collecting is for me both essential and completely useless.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

But my point is that there's something that paintings and other created objects can do to give you some relief. They give you a location, a place to be, when the rest of the time the space has been taken up because the criticism got there first.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.