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“They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.”

Thinking Way Said I Can Hard Used Guy Games Talking Watches Player Fields Objects Football Psychiatrist Other Guys Bash Talking About Me

Author:Jackie Mason

“In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.”

Mean Stills Wish Creation Objects Aspect Perceive Rejection Attributes Selection Distortion

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.”

Vision Knowing Objects Organs Not Knowing Defects

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you”

Thinking I Can Running Fall Objects Ears Down And Sticks Silly Falling Down Silly Things Pickups Inanimate Objects

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.”

Objects Consequence Photograph

Author:Dorothea Lange

“When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they have a subject about whom they have feelings, a subject that is more than a model, or an object, or a shape, or an idea. In this way, they can judge the result not only by its technical success, but also by how well it describes their feelings.”

People Way Giving Wells Ideas Feelings Asks Results Class Teach Subjects Objects Judging Shapes Models Photograph Assignments One You Love Someone You Love

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Two Important Might Wanted Subjects Objects Mines Photograph

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.”

Mean Light Action Objects Fundamentals Mediums Print Chemicals

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.”

Humans Reality Process Events Objects Particular Bears Presses Photographer Reactions Authenticity Theme Anguish Powerless Stamps Purification

Author:Yukio Mishima

“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”

Ifs Men Doe Process Objects Circumstances Cameras Historical Arise Ideology Phenomenon Upside Down Inversions Camera Obscura

Book:The German Ideology

Source: The German Ideology

“A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.”

Pieces Objects Materials Paper Photograph

Book:Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.”

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.”

Wells Art Cutting Objects Degrees Paper Ordinary Photographer Flames Sensitive Candle Flash Lightning Lit Blackness

Author:Tristan Tzara

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.”

Ideas Dream Objects Photograph

Author:Man Ray

“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.”

Thinking Found Objects Painting Photograph Manipulate Crops Found Objects

Author:Dennis Hopper

“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.”

Persons Done Hours Memories Happened Rocks Objects Thousand Clothes Bones Miles Stuck Likes Collections Bags Dislike Spinning Thousand Miles Likes And Dislikes

Book:Junior

Source: Junior

“My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.”

Problem Light Three Consciousness Objects Solutions Shadow Connected Pursuit Data Investigation Solution To A Problem

Author:Rene Magritte

“An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.”

Ifs World Long Eye Together Beautiful Perfect Objects Pure Sells Innocent Unseen One Word Unison

Author:Wim Wenders

“Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.”

Author:Andre Bazin

“[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.”

Process Virtue Share Objects Becoming Models Photograph Reproduction

Book:What Is Cinema?

Source: What Is Cinema?

“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.”

Wells Realizing Objects Photographer Casts Cinema Paradox Lenses Luminous Duration

Author:Andre Bazin

“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.”

“When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.”

Want Objects Abstract

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.”

Want Ideas Objects

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.”

Littles Said Shows Stuff Figures Objects Strange Painting My Friends Tradition Planning They Said Old Fashioned Figure Painting

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.”

Reason Together Simple Objects Warhol

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.”

Possibility Objects Erotic

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game of jacks, where those complicated little objects can be thrown together in all different ways.”

Way Children Littles Different Together Three Games Objects Complicated Different Ways Thrown Packs

Author:Ira Flatow

“The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.”

I Can States Government Objects Serious Jokes Consideration

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.”

Book Beautiful Novel Objects Elements Scales Beautiful Objects

Author:Richard Grossman

“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.”

I Can Use Eye Greater Subjects Objects Produce Projects Cameras Photographer Active Impression Landscape

Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs

Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs

“We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.”

Feels Art Levels Emotion Objects Remains Photographer Photograph Linked Domain Souvenirs Personal History

Author:Chris Marker

“An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.”

Light Dies Objects

Author:Chris Marker

“The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.”

Ifs Interest Information Objects Painting Murder Photograph

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.”

“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

Facts Political Space Events Objects Conflict Gains Starting Radio Interpretation Warfare Representation Strategic Presentation Radar Completing

Author:Paul Virilio

“One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.”

Objects God Love His Love

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.”

Objects Photograph

Author:Robert Heinecken

“I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.”

Play Objects Familiar Unfamiliar

Author:Robert Heinecken

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.”

Light Results Objects Type Bears Reflection Photograph Surface Sensitive Visuals Icons

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

“I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.”

People Feelings Light Lying Fall Chance Simple Sky Share Objects Studios Clarity Sweetness Illumination Constancy

Author:Irving Penn

“I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.”

Thinking I Can Important War Winning Objects

Book:In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Source: In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

“I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.”

People Knows Want Faces Know How Objects Dating Serials

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.”

Sometimes Objects Duty Advantage Speed Journalist Accuracy

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.”

Persons Objects Personality Activity Performances Cult

Author:Vito Acconci

“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?”

Way Trying Process Attention Objects Activity Losing Relation Viewers Keep Trying

Author:Uta Barth

“We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.”

Mean Ideas Shows Objects Offers Photography Contrast Maximum Precision

Book:Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition

Source: Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition

“This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.”

Objects Substitutes Motifs

Author:Bernd Becher

“We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.”

Men World Term Views Objects Building Agree New Beginnings 1930s Depiction

Author:Bernd Becher