Best Objects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.”

Language Objects Painting Abstract

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.”

Way Whole Values Objects Realism

Book:Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art

Source: Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art

“Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.”

People Firsts Together Objects Commitment Overcoming Inertia

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.”

States Views Vision Seeing Objects Contemplation Identical

Author:Plotinus

“It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.”

Heart Body Seems Eye Young Life Is Order Existence Taken Saws Car Objects Understood Shoes Bones Flesh Miles Faithful Pairs Pens Cosmic Bike Pair Of Shoes Good Faith Nucleus Young At Heart

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.”

Names Objects Function

Author:Rene Magritte

“No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.”

Names Objects Stuck Suits

Author:Rene Magritte

“The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.”

Law Subjects Objects Color Surface Principal

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.”

Men Mean Asks Responsibility Position Objects He Man Complaining Likes Suits Sigh Revolt Deliverance Very Mean Vexation

Author:Francois Guizot

“On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.”

Said Matter Hands Emotion Subjects Objects Music Is Aim Musical Propositions Subject Matter

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.”

Objects Painting Elements Indispensable Fabulous Splendor Impressionism

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”

Firsts Believe Wells Artist Subjects Objects Painting

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.”

Has Beens Feelings Natural Emotion Objects Essentials Independent Appearance Meaningless

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”

Mind Mean Ideas Feelings Objects Expression Pure Conscious Accepted Meaningless Worthless Conscious Mind

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.”

Whole Space Objects Garden Site

Book:The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

Source: The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

“Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.”

Art Objects Contemplation Works Of Art Persist

Author:Herbert Read

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.”

Mind Desire Known Mankind Objects Species Rate Various Pursue Variety Shade Objects Of Desire

Author:William Gifford

“There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.”

Way Objects Draws Drawing Senses Contact Right Way

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible - and especially through the sense of touch.”

Enough Objects Draws Senses Contact Vivid

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.”

Ifs Wells Done Care Views Objects Distance Paint Take Care Well Done Foreground

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”

Art Hands Religious Class Objects Paper Instruments Sacred Touching Pencils Ceremony Art Class

Author:Joan Miro

“They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.”

Might Opinion Objects Judging Behavior

Author:Roy Moore

“The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.”

Men Character Perfect Views Objects Worship Clothes Standards Perfection Belonging Endeavor Attributes

Book:The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

Source: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

“Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.”

Way Giving Mind Form Turns Movement Objects Ego Perception Grasping Aversion

Author:Adyashanti

“The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.”

World Heart Problem Space Objects Empty Constant Depth Surface Visible Empty Space Layout

Author:James J. Gibson

“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.”

Stills Important Seems Able Found Objects Painting Composition Still Life

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.”

Cutting Objects Backgrounds Construction

Author:Robert Genn

“If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.”

Ifs Objects Paint Staring No Point

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”

Firsts States Space Objects Color Flow Interpretation

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.”

World Doe Objects Painting Concepts Window Surface Modernism

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”

World Light Artist Loses Views Mankind Objects Core Illuminating

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

“Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.”

Years Age Form Objects Habit Six Worthy Fifty Dissatisfaction Sketching Pictorial

Book:Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

Source: Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849

“The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.”

People Government Nations Moral Progress Objects Materials Citizens Prosperity Welfare Desirable Good Citizen

Book:The New Nationalism

Source: The New Nationalism

“Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.”

Values Sleep Worry Dog Objects Ruins Grieving

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Public instruction should be the first object of government.”

Should Firsts Government Objects Instruction

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.”

Christianity Objects Scripture Sole Inquiry

Author:St. Jerome

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“The object of government is the welfare of the people.”

People Government Objects Welfare

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.”

People Knows Helping Speak Realizing Race Objects Definite

Book:Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.”

Ifs Heart Virtue Objects Goes On Holy Limits Capable Infinite Charity Saint Infinity Definite

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.”

Believe Hands Father Interest Religious Moral Objects Office Commit Manifestation Faith In God Governors Religious Faith Confidence In God Redeemer Religious Love

Book:BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”

Men Should Race Creation Objects Lust Beast God's Creation

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50), and 'The word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's Who sent Me' (Jn. 14:24), and in another place, 'As the Father commanded Me, even so I do' (Jn. 14:31), it is not because He lacks deliberate purpose or power of initiative, nor yet because He has to wait for the preconcerted key-note, that He employs language of this kind. His object is to make it plain that His own will is connected in indissoluble union with the Father.”