“In a mere twenty minutes, they'd blown past the desired point of meaningful-connection-through-shared-experience into the less appealing state of knowing-each-other-too-well.” ASashaFound Objects Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.” StillsStoriesFilmFoundObjectsElementsMatureStorytellerDocumentariesGood StoryArcsDocumentary FilmsFound Objects Author:Garth Stein
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.” GivingIdeasBodyArtistFoundNamesMy OwnInterestingEffectsObjectsCollegeStrangeForeignersMaking UpFound Objects Author:Gavin Turk
“Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.” IfsArtMadeFoundChanceCreationObjectsReadyMassSeparationFountainSculptureItemsMiraculousCommonplaceAbolishArt And LifeFound Objects Author:Charles Simic
“Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.” ShouldYearsMeanMadeSometimesUsedFoundNiceOur LivesObjectsBalanceStriveStrikesDecadesBuyingEquationsFound Objects Author:Nate Berkus
“I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.” ThinkingFoundObjectsPaintingPhotographManipulateCropsFound Objects Author:Dennis Hopper
“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.” HumansUseFoundAnimalObjectsMaterialsHairPaintStudiosWideTraditionalRangeMetalsPlasticSteelSculptureHumans And AnimalsDentalPlastersTaxidermyFound Objects Author:Patricia Piccinini
“Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.” HumansMatterLightArtistFoundHuman BeingsObjectsPureNormalStoresUnconsciousBuriedSubconsciousLiberatingProceduresVoyagesFound Objects Book:Ernst Source: Ernst
“My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.” FunnyAsksSexWifeObjectsSexyMy WifeFunny SexGreat SexSex RelationshipsFunny SexyFound Objects Author:Les Dawson
“I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.” KnowsWorldLastsFoundInterestDoubtObjectsBreathsPhotographNo DoubtFound Objects Author:Ansel Adams
“Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.” WorldWayFoundMemoriesSubjectsObjectsPhotographyMachinesPhotographerStealingSavingPreservesTime MachineFound Objects Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto