Top 1200 Found Objects Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I was thankful for the fight with Kampmann. I was thankful for the cuts, I was thankful because I found something inside of my heart that I knew was there, but I had never tapped into it. I found this warrior's spirit, an old school warrior within me.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

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

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

I was diagnosed with hypertension when I was 24, and I battled hypertension for about 10 to 12 years, and then I went to the doctor for something else, and he found that I had high levels of protein in my urine, and that's how I found out I had kidney disease.

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

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

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.