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I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's been shrink-wrapped.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining
We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
The object of powder is powder.
There are no inanimate objects.
Objects of charity are not guests.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?
We have persistant objects, they're called files.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
Go not to the object; let the object come to you.
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.