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" Quotes and Sayings About objects

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Accumulate All-Time Ashes Beauty
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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Freud Questioned Powerful Participation
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Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Blue Color Exact Field
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Always Colour Front Images
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Objects Only Selves Space
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger Bear Jealousy Lose
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Also Beings Deeds Desires
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Desire Grows Invisible Objects
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

About Again Also Appreciating
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Positivist Mysterious View Object
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
Gossip Object Flattery Present
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Against Beauty Flux Giving
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Alive Culture History Objects
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Man Certain Moment Effort
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscure, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Ideology Men Circumstances Appear
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Wandering Happiness Narrow Compass
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Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

Make Objectivity Religion Liars
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Affections Curiosity Influence Interesting
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Active Always Because Colonial
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Art Himself His Man
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Objects Little happiness Gained
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

Being Bridges Comprehensive Crowds
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

Acquire Around Becomes Consider
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Higher function Feel Appreciated Enjoy natural
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

We seek Deepest level Resemble Physically
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Dangerous Violence employed Well-meaning people
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Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Education Not acquisition Burdensome information Regarding objects
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

God Objects Slave trade Manners
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music Something Feelings Motivated
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Objects Lose Familiar View
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