“The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.” ArtObjectsExpressionProveFindingsArt IsInfiniteRealmsRepresentationSublimeFittingProve It Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.” ArtRealLanguageObjectsPaintingRealmsAbstractVisibleConcreteRepresentation Author:Gustave Courbet
“To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.” WholeBigsRoomsBreakIssuesDesignFieldsIdentityObjectsProductsArchitectureScalesRealmsBreaking DownProduct DesignSmall RoomsHolism Author:Greg Lynn
“I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.” WholeHappensObjectsParticularSpeedRealmsEngineeringRatiosSpatialFiguring Things Author:Arthur Ganson
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.” SoulThreeSpeakDangerousObjectsTheoryPersonalitySensesRationalRealmsFacultyRepublicAmbitiousPlato Author:Thomas McEvilley