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  Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

  Brian Eno

  Topics in Experience, Work

  Tags in Objects, Start

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Believe, Sake, Objects, Material, Internal, Possess, Why, Only, Opinion, Though, Universe, Order, Matters

• Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they’re being written. Or at least they do for me. They’re the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Objects, Technical

• The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

  Claude Nicollier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Objects, Moderate

• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can’t touch.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Objects

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  Edmund Husserl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Natural, Objects

• Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Topics in Dream, Wisdom

  Tags in People, Objects

• To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Objects

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in God

  Tags in Objects, Behold, Understand, Mankind, Curious

• The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Objects, Man

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Reveals, Objects, Man

• The object of the superior man is truth.

  Confucius

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Objects, Man

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Objects, Things and Little Things, Soft, Hub, Universe, Journalist

• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Objects, Break

• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Objects, Weak

• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  Walter Horatio Pater

  Tags in Objects, Assertion, Artifice

• Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Anish Kapoor

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Objects