Objects Quotes

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

The object of powder is powder.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

The only object of liberty is life.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made.

Love does not analyze its object.

Objects of charity are not guests.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

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.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.