Top Objects Quotes

It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly....

We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal...

Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.

Facts produce structures, objects are lyrical realities.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

History is a madman's museum.

She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in the dock. As Dr Byford explained, she was really the victim of a vicious, peculiar...

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the m...

Embodied in objects was a partial sense of sharing. They didn't lift their eyes from their respective sets. But noises bound them, a cyclist kick-starting, the plane that came winding down the five mi...

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

All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enri...

Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out th...