“ We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast. Rachel Kushner
“ 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.… Donna Tartt
“ 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… Ashly Lorenzana
“ Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Henri Bergson
“ Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional. Baris Gencel
“ A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects Sunday Adelaja
“ 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. Orhan Pamuk
“ 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… Don DeLillo
“ 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… Zadie Smith
“ For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal. Rashid Johnson
“ If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for… Jean Baudrillard
“ 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… Kennedy Fraser
