Objects Quotes

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

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.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

What would you do if money was no object?

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Theology is a subject without an object

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.