Home / Topics / Objects Quotes

Objects Quotes

Browse 4503 quotes about Objects.

Objects Quotes

“Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.”

Mind Ideas Objects Recognition Materialism Copies Sensations

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”

Thinking Should Reading Objects Train Mere Various Copies Pupils

Book:The Enquirer

Source: The Enquirer

“When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.”

Past Objects Perception Mirrors Originals Affection Faithful Colour Dull Comparison Copies Sentiments Our Thoughts Our Past

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.”

Film Artist Sound Interest Perfect Objects Personality Photography Screens Interpretation Copies Makers Mediocrity Bores Discouraging Reproduction Refinement

Author:Jean Renoir

“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.”