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“Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.”

Thinking Objects Color Clothes Colour

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“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

“A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.”

Men Wells Persons Soul Spirit Existence Objects Office Clothes Dresses Trade Faculty Purses Dandy

Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.”

World Needs Humans Has Beens Use Body Space Objects Horror Clothes Instinct Intimate Urges Vacuums

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“I like the authentic object, and I have no problem paying sixty dollars for a T-shirt if it fits me really well and it's really well made. I like unassuming clothes.”

Ifs Wells Made Problem Objects Fit Clothes Dollars Shirts Sixty No Problem T Shirt Unassuming

Author:Micah Lexier

“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