Quotes About Objects

All the objects you gifted me cannot replace your love.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

There are so many objects that I find that I have forgotten about until they are in my hands again, and they remind me of times in my life I had otherwise forgotten, the way you will visit a place you think is new and then something, a sound or smell or some tiny detail, will make you realize it is familiar after all.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other...

In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

J'ai toujours été intéressé par l'aspect humain. On ne le répétera jamais assez : toutes ces expériences, toutes ces sociétés modernes ne peuvent pas être jugées uniquement en fonction de l'efficacité de leur structure économique. Elles s'évaluent surtout en fonction du type d'hommes qui produisent ces objets, et du type de vie qu'ils sont obligés de mener. (p. 304)

Rigakos suggests that the term "security" has become analytically useless and should be shifted to "pacification". Pacification, he writes, can excite our critical imaginations in new ways. Pacification captures the mobilization of policong in a manner that sheds light on the objects, history and politics of such interventions. Thus, rather than obscuring global capitalist relations, pacification unpacks these connections.

I've always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

It was important that the objects of love be nothing but recipients, he thought again. Love was an outgoing thing, a gift that one should not expect to be returned. Stendhall must have said that, Proust certainly, using other words: a piece of wisdom his eyes had passed over reading.

Voy a tirar la caja entera de nuevo en tu vida, Ed, cada objeto tuyo y mío. Voy a tirarla en tu porche, Ed, aunque es a ti a quien estoy tirando.

Curiously, you will see that the more incandescent your desire, the less it will turn toward objects of desire, because it no longer needs them to mask incompletion.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

Every object that is loved forms the center of a paradise.

Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had orderd such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.

Say it! No ideas but in things.

According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from natural objects and specified meanings but when they are liberated from the usual quality of that meaning by transportation into another medium, the imagination.