People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak soft...
The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellen...
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something there,’ more deep and more general than any of the special and particular ‘senses’ by which the...
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receive...
Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it ...
We've already slept together and you made no objection.
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
books as objects are not what books , it's not what's important about them
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.
