Quotessence
Home / Topics / Objects Quotes

Objects Quotes

Browse 4503 quotes about Objects.

Related topics

IfsMenPeopleWorldMindThinkingArtWayHumansMayShouldKnowsFirstsIdeasGivingDoeWantFormMeanDesirePersonsSubjectsUseLooksMadeEyeWholeWellsHas BeensRealFeelsLightFactsNeedsStatesBeautifulBodySpaceSelfSoulStillsImportantChildrenEndsRealityBookLittlesKindReasonCertainGovernmentPaintingBelieveAttentionMatterLongDifferentTwoHandsScienceValuesFeelingsNaturalOrderArtistMightSaidSeemsTurnsViewsDesignHeartInterestMaterialsMomentsPleasureProcessTryingExistenceLove IsPhotographLawPurposeYearsCharacterWarActionSpiritInanimate ObjectsLanguageQualityUniverseIndividualMovingWritingStoriesArt IsEarthLyingCausesmore

Objects Quotes

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

PeopleIfsBeautifulFacesNightSidesSpaceSilenceBeautyTreeSkyEventsObjectsPaintingFlowerPagesUniqueGainsEmptyNotesCornersSignificantGrassAutumnSignificanceCandleCasualFramed
Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Create image

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

WayMayMovingDesireEasyCommunitySilenceObjectsSweetDisciplineShapesBirdTraditionCrossesWingsCaughtBitterWanderParadoxVoidTwistedBack And ForthNavigate
Author:Wendy Farley
Create image

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

MenNeedsKindMayChildrenHas BeensLastsUsedCertainLeftSpeakVoicePleasureSilenceQualityLaughingObjectsKeysCircumstancesGayEssenceNotesMoodDustPianoChairsMelancholyEchoesLifelessEmanate
Book:West with the Night
Create image

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

ChildrenArtStillsMomentsLosesLove IsEmotionConsciousnessSilenceMysteryInfluenceObjectsDivineExpressionOceanHighestMereCalmWaveWorthySunsetAutumnFloodOur LoveStatuesSymphonyRaptureRippleCaressMajesticForbidden LoveUnfathomableVistas
Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
Create image