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• To be the object of someone’s obsession is horrible.

  Tippi Hedren

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  Tags in Obsession, Object

• If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn’t even have dreamed of.

  Michael Hansmeyer

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  Tags in Creating, Object

• If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

  Max Stirner

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• This object that we hold in our hands, a book… that tactile pleasure, it’s just not going to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you’re always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

  David Sanborn

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• Artschwager’s art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you’re looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Unexpected, Object

• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

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  Tags in Connected, Object, Greatest

• Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

  Paul Cézanne

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• 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.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Necessary, Object

• I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

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• The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

  George Henry Lewes

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• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir

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• If you’re working on a computer and you’re editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

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• I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

  Clive Anderson

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

  Chuck Close

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  Tags in Person, Sculpture, Object

• Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

  Edmund Husserl

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  Tags in Object, Concept

• A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

  Robert Smithson

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Object

• This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

  Charles Francis Richter

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  Tags in Different, Measured, Object

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

  Robert Delaunay

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Object, Literary

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

  Willard Van Orman Quine

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  Tags in Object, Meaning