Quotes of: Objections Keyword

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Jeff Koons

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-exis...

Jerry Saltz

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

Jerry Saltz

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the be...

Said Nursi

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

Sam Taylor-Wood

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

1984

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Adam Bede

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Accelerando

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

The Art Spirit

It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.

A History Of The World In 100 Objects

But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.

Inanimate Objects

A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.

Manalive

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

A Mercy

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.

Limbo

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

Snuff

She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.

The Sportswriter

The object I stabbed him with was all bloody. Fortunately for him, the blood was on the tampon before I stabbed him, and not a result of the stabbing.

Sleepwalking is restercise

... a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

Swann's Way