Object Significance Quotes

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.