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“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”

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Author:Garth Stein

“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“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

“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.”

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”

Way May Found Given Force Water Movement Objects Listening Limits Function Sake Boundaries Fixed Helpful Listeners Fulfilling Definite Centre Confined Talkers Canals Restraining Erratic

Author:Charles Dickens

“As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.”

Whole Together Lying Found Water Objects Broken Type Elements Late Skins Passages Fragments Disturbing Disturbed Seals Jars Burial Pottery Vases Rubble Lying On The Floor Small Objects

Author:Howard Carter

“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."”

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.”

World Way Facts Found Existence Objects Letting Go Categories Contrast Sublime Threshold

Book:The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Source: The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

“Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.”

Men Hard Found Human Nature Objects Diversity Judgment Constant Vain Diverse Uniforms

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.”

Thinking Giving Feels Firsts Art Made Book Feelings Home Hands Wanted Artist Found Saws Heard Special Objects Type Needed Demand Dues Privileged Fetish Treasured Abram

Author:Jeff Kinney

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.”

Thinking Years Art Facts Found Names Objects Painting Decided Brave Museums Prehistoric

Author:Pierre Soulages

“Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.”

Way Science Found Stars Objects Evidence Mark Photograph Clouds Pockets Plates Wipe Identifying Wilson Astronomers Domes Milky Way Handkerchiefs Andromeda Nebula

Author:Halton Arp

“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

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Author:Gavin Turk

“Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.”

Ifs Art Made Found Chance Creation Objects Ready Mass Separation Fountain Sculpture Items Miraculous Commonplace Abolish Art And Life Found Objects

Author:Charles Simic

“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.”

Way Today Culture Found Creativity Subjects Identity Objects Crisis Depth Creator Spheres Turning Points Foreseen Ripening

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.”

Purpose Found Numbers Objects Scene Novelists Describing

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.”

Should Years Mean Made Sometimes Used Found Nice Our Lives Objects Balance Strive Strikes Decades Buying Equations Found Objects

Author:Nate Berkus

“The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.”

Needs Found Creativity Objects Roots Destroyed Phases Depressive

Author:Melanie Klein

“I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?”

Men Might Beautiful Faces Form Found Father Known Objects Photograph Relevant Aesthetics Hints Grimace

Book:The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

Source: The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

“I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.”

Thinking Found Objects Painting Photograph Manipulate Crops Found Objects

Author:Dennis Hopper

“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.”

Humans Use Found Animal Objects Materials Hair Paint Studios Wide Traditional Range Metals Plastic Steel Sculpture Humans And Animals Dental Plasters Taxidermy Found Objects

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.”

Thinking Humans Form Found Human Beings Deals Objects Structure Drawing Rhythm Proportion Pot Accents

Author:Warren MacKenzie

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