“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.” IfsWorldWantWellsMadeI CanBookWantedHateTurnsNextChancePerfectObjectsColorTenPagesIdealsI HateMade ItNext TimeDiscouragingAnother ChanceAccommodations Author:Joan Didion
“I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.” ThinkingStillsHandsTodayWantedSexSawsObjectsFoolTerribleAwfulFlatteringLike Her Author:Gail Levin
“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."” ThinkingArtWantedFormFoundLanguageVisionCenturyFieldsObjectsChangedMaterialsMovedComplexesDetailsBoundariesVisualsUnitsPersistentPioneersAlteredNew ThoughtFrame Of ReferenceImpressionism Author:Jasper Johns
“When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.” ThinkingGivingFeelsFirstsArtMadeBookFeelingsHomeHandsWantedArtistFoundSawsHeardSpecialObjectsTypeNeededDemandDuesPrivilegedFetishTreasuredAbram Author:Jeff Kinney
“I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsFeelingsWould BeWantedRememberSecretEmotionHalfTalkingCrazyObjectsWalkingKissingAll ThingsTrainHatedStaringContradictionTornMy Best FriendRippedLowesConflicting EmotionsUndying Love Author:A. Meredith Walters
“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.” KindMadeWantedUsedSimpleCommonObjectsReadyLateOrdinaryDrawing Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.” PeopleIfsWorldAbleWantedAmericaAsksObjectsAskingLuxuryIf I Could Author:Mark Burnett
“I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and I would have this relationship with that person, and if that person was interested in the object, they would have to email me and I would send that object digitally to them. So, I wanted the relationship with that person, however brief, and I wanted to spread the digital record of the things I have.” PeopleIfsGivingPersonsStillsWantedRecordsObjectsSpreadDigitalSiteEmailPhysical ThingsMailing Author:Mary Mattingly
“There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksKindTwoImportantMightWantedSubjectsObjectsMinesPhotograph Book:Pictures under discussion Source: Pictures under discussion
“I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.” WantFeelsStillsWantedObjectsWaveTidal Waves Author:Michelle Huneven
“I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.” WantedCultureLanguageInterestingObjectsUniversalChinaContemporaryNew Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.” ShowsWantedObjectsDocumentsArtifacts Author:Steven Sebring
“I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.” ThinkingYearsKindChildrenBookBigsAbleWantedSchoolLanguageObjectsReaderPagesMy FavoriteAll KindsPensSeptemberNotebookMarkers Author:Elaine Equi