67 Quotes About Object
- Author André Breton
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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- Author Alberto Giacometti
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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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- Author Heinrich Wölfflin
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... we animate every object. This is a basic instinct in man... Will this instinct ever die out? I believe not. It would be the death of art.
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- Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.
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- Author Khalid Masood
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A moment in time is the strangest and most powerful object in the known universe.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
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- Author Theodor W. Adorno
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But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.
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- Author Anthony Liccione
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No thing, should make you feel like a nothing.
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- Author Plotinus
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When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.
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