#objects

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#communicated #decisions #draws #facts #form

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#goes #letter #like #must #objects

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. ↗

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#first #foremost #i #important #love

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

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

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #dialectic #finished #landscapes #objects

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#fondest #glittering #objects #weak

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. ↗

— Nell Grey

#objects-of-desire #short-story-collection #solstice #home

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#belonged #bowl #buddha #down #female