“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.” MenHumansStillsTogetherMovingFormCan DoPowerfulCitiesObjectsBuildingWallBedFlyingNoiseEmpiresButtonsNailsFloatingScrewsTinMoving PartsTin Cans Author:Craig Stone
“Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.” WorldReasonSexObjectsWallShops Author:Mae West
“External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!” IfsThinkingMenWantIdeasTogetherLosesBrainFourEffectsObjectsProduceWallExerciseDecidedMadIdiotFacultyPrisonerSolitaryShut UpAssociatesConfinementSolitary ConfinementFour Walls Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience” HumansSelfBodyCoursesLostResultsSupportRecordsObjectsPaintingWallDevelopmentFunctionCamerasSurfaceAriseSoleViewersHuman BodyExpressivePictorialIncorporating Author:Gunter Brus
“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!” IfsLongUseHomeSportsLinesKnownEnemyFieldsObjectsFootballWallSafeBaseballDefenseHolesBombsSpiteTargetMarchTerritoryTroopsHittingBulletsAssaultAccuracyQuarterbackReceiverShotgunsBlitz Author:George Carlin
“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.” PeopleWholeMightWalksVisionCarObjectsJudgingWallErrorsBunchVisualsSignalsDisturbingCliffsHeadingsProcessing Author:Usama Fayyad
“When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.” DifferentBitsObjectsWallExperimentsHungFramedFluidity Author:Nate Berkus
“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.” KindLongIdeasSpaceInterestingObjectsPaintingWallOver ItExpandingCeilingsSpace BetweenInteresting Ideas Author:Robert Barry
“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.” ThinkingMindMayMadeCertainSpeakTermLinesDecisionWrittenObjectsColorWallDrawsSizeArtisticVisuals Author:Robert Barry