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Objects Quotes

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust Picture Quote #1

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air Picture Quote #1

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design Picture Quote #1

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking Picture Quote #1

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? Picture Quote #1

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection Picture Quote #1

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Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole Picture Quote #1

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art Picture Quote #1

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone Picture Quote #1

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away Picture Quote #1

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird? Picture Quote #1

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained Picture Quote #1

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Woman’s happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much Picture Quote #1

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty Picture Quote #1

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects Picture Quote #1

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life Picture Quote #1

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels Picture Quote #1

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on Picture Quote #1

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To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They’re out there, and they’re whispering Picture Quote #1

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects Picture Quote #1

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn’t bind them together with stories Picture Quote #1

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good Picture Quote #1

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject Picture Quote #1

The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn’t it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive Picture Quote #1

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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative Picture Quote #1

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds Picture Quote #1

We seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things Picture Quote #1

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden Picture Quote #1

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us Picture Quote #1

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves Picture Quote #1

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust (Objects Quotes) Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air (Objects Quotes) Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design (Objects Quotes) Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking (Objects Quotes) I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? (Objects Quotes) The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection (Objects Quotes) Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole (Objects Quotes) The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art (Objects Quotes) Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone (Objects Quotes) Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away (Objects Quotes) To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird? (Objects Quotes) Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained (Objects Quotes) Woman’s happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much (Objects Quotes) Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty (Objects Quotes) I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects (Objects Quotes) I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life (Objects Quotes) I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels (Objects Quotes) Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on (Objects Quotes) To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They’re out there, and they’re whispering (Objects Quotes) Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects (Objects Quotes) The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn’t bind them together with stories (Objects Quotes) One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good (Objects Quotes) Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject (Objects Quotes) The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn’t it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive (Objects Quotes) The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative (Objects Quotes) When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds (Objects Quotes) We seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things (Objects Quotes) What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden (Objects Quotes) When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us (Objects Quotes) Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves (Objects Quotes)

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