“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.” ArtLightArtistWaterGenerationsDogObjectsMaterialsThousandPaintSmokeChairsElectricSockNeonNeon Lights Author:Allan Kaprow
“Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.” IfsFeelsFactsUseAblePleasureCommonFocusExampleObjectsKeysGratitudeComputerInstrumentsAppreciationAvailableCupsClockEach DayChairsPensForksEyeglassesUtensils Author:Zelig Pliskin
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.” HumansLooksRealityRunningPositionObjectsSafeIllusionMachinesDistancePerceiveCinemaTiesAppropriateChairsTiedViewersAllegoryTies That Bind Author:Slavoj Žižek
“When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.” ChildrenDoeSeemsMovingOrderHouseNaturalDoorsDogObjectsTablesChaosChairsDispositionNatural OrderTables And Chairs Book:Bowen's Court Source: Bowen's Court
“Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.” FirstsHumorFunnyObjectsPicksTeethChairsIronMetalsHookDentist Author:Bill Cosby
“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.” MovingAirObjectsReflectionChairsFurniturePeacefulnessRocking Chairs Author:Wallis Simpson
“I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.” TryingArtBookObjectsShoesSentencesPainterGrantedChairsTaken For GrantedTaking Things For Granted Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.” MenNeedsKindMayChildrenHas BeensLastsUsedCertainLeftSpeakVoicePleasureSilenceQualityLaughingObjectsKeysCircumstancesGayEssenceNotesMoodDustPianoChairsMelancholyEchoesLifelessEmanate Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night