Object Quotes

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.

The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.