Object Quotes

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.