Quotes of: Objections Keyword

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...

Art as a Social System

In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of page...

The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into its sphere by casual attraction deepening to...

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

The lampstand was position strategically to do one things: cast its light on the table and on the bread that represented God's provision and presence. For generations the lampstand of the tabernacle stood to highlight the object that best represented...

The Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, streams, precipices, and slides, and as he walks t...

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The m...

Helen Keller

This is the story I am working on. But it isn't complete as I don't have the right way to begin. I sit on the crosshouse floor and look at the objects. I see different ways they could be put together and the way the story changes over time. The objec...

Anna Smaill

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

California Sorrow

In the CLOUD, reflections mirror reflections, cutting out the object and leaving only infinite emptiness.

Cypulchre

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

Get Lucky

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

David Hume

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Giannini

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.

Michel Foucault

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Robert Smithson

Design is body language for inanimate objects.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

Wesley Snipes

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

The King of the Dark Chamber

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being