“Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.” MenShouldReasonCasesSeeingObjectsStrangeSpeechArgumentExtremesFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechValidity Author:John Stuart Mill
“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.” ImportantUseBeautifulSpiritualFormCertainSpaceToo MuchObjectsStrangeExpressionDecidedEternityPainterCraftsManifestationColourTreatmentExpensesMagnificentCanvasEmphasisOutlookSpectrumVergeInscrutable Author:Max Beckmann
“The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.” MenWorldDoeEyeSpeakModernObjectsStrangeHe ManPaintingReaderEarsRelationFundamentalsActiveCharacteristicsPleasantHis EyesDullSkepticismParticipationShakingRoaringTappingWoolVetsPlacementActive ParticipationShaking It Author:Donald Barthelme
“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."” HeartSaidLiteratureBreakCreationObjectsStrangeAimRoundsCoveredBlankFurBreak Your Heart Author:Donald Barthelme
“Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.” WayCareUsedRoomsObjectsStrangeAverageAssPrimariesEmergenciesFreakyEmergency RoomPrimary Care Author:Bill Maher
“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.” SometimesFacesWatchesObjectsStrangePersonalitySightContemplatingTowersStatuesEdificeInanimate Objects Book:Ninety-three Source: Ninety-three
“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.” HeartLittlesSelfCountrySeemsHateLiteratureChurchResultsNovelObjectsStrangeRegardClimateDebateGenerosityLatterBroadsMeaninglessDislikeFascinatedAmbitiousSuspicionIgnoredStrokesTextureMatthewBakersAmerican LiteratureLatter DaysFingernailsNicholsonDissectionDeacons Author:Stephen King
“Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.” KnowsObjectsStrangeReturnAffectionAttachmentOur LoveInanimate Objects Book:Romance and Reality Source: Romance and Reality
“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.” GivingIdeasBodyArtistFoundNamesMy OwnInterestingEffectsObjectsCollegeStrangeForeignersMaking UpFound Objects Author:Gavin Turk
“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
“And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting, shadow lighting, and I didn't use flash. We didn't have flash in those days, we just had floodlights, and I was photographing babies as I would an object - an inanimate object, for that matter.” MatterUseUsedSuccessfulObjectsStrangeBabyPhotographyShadowDramaticFlashPortraitsLightingInanimate Objects Author:Julius Shulman
“Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.” DifferentSidesGrowthTermEffectsObjectsStrangePopulationEncountersSomething NewCategoriesDiscourseImperialismConquestObjectivityColonizationSide Effects Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.” KnowsWayStillsObjectsStrangePaintingPaintPortraits Author:Nigel Cooke
“I think that's there are a couple of reasons for that. One is as you're introducing the fourth and fifth versions of these MacGuffins that we've been playing with for a long time, you wanna do something different with them and not just have them be an object passed around. So the notion that something is inherent in the literal body of one of your lead heroes is interesting. And the idea that the Eye of Agamotto's a great relic over the course of Doctor Strange comics anyway.” ThinkingLongIdeasDifferentReasonBodyEyeCoursesInterestingObjectsStrangeCoupleHeroLong TimeDoctorsNotionVersionsFourthIntroducingInherentFifthLiteralRelics Author:Kevin Feige