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• 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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  Tags in Object

• 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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  Tags in Believe, Object

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

  George Henry Lewes

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  Tags in Literature, Object

• 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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  Tags in Working, Object

• 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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  Tags in Defeat, Object

• 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

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  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

• 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.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art, God

  Tags in Painting, Object, Next, Put, Tree, Flood, Take, Made, Judge, Clash

• I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

  Mason Cooley

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  Tags in Object, Time, Like, Matter

• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

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  Tags in Object, Their, Themselves, Throughout, Young, Prefer, Prepare, Lives

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

  Gaston Bachelard

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  Tags in Object, Aesthetic, Literary, Literature

• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

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  Tags in Object, Pursue, Characteristic, Choice

• My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

  Thomas Arnold

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  Tags in Object, Christian, Possible, Make