“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?” InterestLinesTroubleSecurityFiguresObjectsTrumpEssentialsDrawsClaimsPressesGenuineMinistersTensionPrivacyFundExpensesSheetsMistressTaxpayersCabinetsMisusePublic InterestPublic FiguresSatin Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.” FeelsTryingHomeEyeLastsFiguresObjectsBuildingPleaseComfortableAdultsFillingAcquiring ThingsBuilding A Home Author:Lauren Bacall
“I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.” KnowsGamesSimpleFiguresObjectsHockeySkatingFigure SkatingPuck Author:Patrick Chan
“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.” IfsWellsPersonsAbleAnimalPracticeStudyFailingOne ThingFiguresObjectsParticularGeniusHonorPainterLandscapeBranchesAcademy Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.” TryingKindMadeWholeCharacterStoriesUseLightOpportunitySidesBrainCreativeFiguresObjectsCreatingDigitalTransitionIntegratingAdventImaging Author:John Dykstra
“We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.” GodUsedReligiousForgetFiguresObjectsWorshipRiversSaintChiefsGreekFancyReasoningDivinityMarsRefrainSanctityVenusAllegoryPantheonMinerva Author:Julian Huxley
“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.” ThinkingWellsArtIdeasWould BeFormFiguresObjectsPaintingShapesAll ThingsCirclesAbsurdMetaphysicsImageryFigurative Art Author:Pablo Picasso
“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.” LittlesSaidShowsStuffFiguresObjectsStrangePaintingMy FriendsTraditionPlanningThey SaidOld FashionedFigure Painting Author:Claes Oldenburg
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.” ThinkingGivingTwoTogetherFallThreeEasyHoursWeekFiguresObjectsMetsSummerDecidedWorking TogetherThree TimesSockKate Author:Alison McGhee
“When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.” AmericaNextSpaceRaceMilitaryFiguresObjectsConceptsInnovationDrivenSpace Race Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson