“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.” LightRememberFacesArtistFallWaterCan DoRoomsObjectsFlowPaintCandlelight Author:Janet Fitch
“Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.” MomentsAbilityRoomsObjectsPaintingPresent MomentViewersKnocking Author:Joe Bradley
“I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.” SpaceRoomsDesignObjectsBuildingAimInteractionViewersFurnitureSkylines Author:Gae Aulenti
“There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.” LightNextRoomsDarknessObjectsShadowFireplaces Book:The Haunted Source: The Haunted
“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
“Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you? Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did? Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you? Has he ever threatened to hurt you? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.” IfsHas BeensHurtAnswersRoomsWonderObjectsRaisedViolentThrownTrappedThreatenedFists Author:Lundy Bancroft
“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
“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.” WorldCharacterHomeLife IsFatherDifficultHoursRoomsObjectsHabitSacredCommunicateWork OutMysteriousOccupationHouseholdImmenseMarvelousTranscendenceAdventurousPrestigeEmbodiment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.” HomeFacesHouseRoomsAcceptingFeetObjectsCatCornersFamiliarFoldsUnfamiliarCozyNew HomeInanimate Objects Author:Emily Carr
“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.” RoomsCitiesPovertyForeverObjectsImpressionUselessDestinedGarbageCrystalsLiving RoomDumpVelvetCushionsSatinChandeliersFavelas Book:Beyond All Pity Source: Beyond All Pity
“The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.” MadeThreeSpaceWhiteRoomsObjectsClassicCanvasInteriors Author:Gunter Brus
“I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.” IfsKnowsMenTryingMindHumansWould BeOrderPassionRoomsEducationObjectsBearsCapacityLaborMethodFilledNotionInstanceObservationVainHuman MindEndeavorChestsSweatAbsurdityInclinationAssertionCandor Author:Sarah Fielding
“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.” ShouldLeftRoomsDesignObjectsElementsAcquireInterior DesignInstallation Author:Charlotte Moss
“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.” IfsWayMeanWholeLanguageRoomsRocksObjectsFitPaperProjectsFunctionMalesGenderFeminineMasculineVienna Author:Lawrence Weiner
“As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.” WayTwoBookStatesNightUnitedRoomsCitiesMorningUnited StatesFourObjectsEatingTiredPhonesBarsPlanesHotelBetter WaysHotel RoomsDementedRoom ServicePringles Author:Margaret Atwood