Object Quotes

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.