Objects Quotes

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.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

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

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.