“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.” LittlesSoulForceOpinionObjectsFortuneImpressionWheelsPassagesContingency Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“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.” WholeTogetherLyingFoundWaterObjectsBrokenTypeElementsLateSkinsPassagesFragmentsDisturbingDisturbedSealsJarsBurialPotteryVasesRubbleLying On The FloorSmall Objects Author:Howard Carter
“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.” WorldReasonLostObjectsClockPassagesPlasticHouseholdHunk Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.” BookSometimesVirtueObjectsExerciseAmbitionLettersAbsolutesPassagesLinkedArchetypePassage Of TimePlatonic Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.” ArtistObjectsEconomicsInstrumentsEverydayAdmirePassagesTransformingPassage Of Time Author:Gabriel Orozco
“A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.” ArtistSpaceDealsJourneyObjectsPassagesStatic Author:Maya Lin