Objects Quotes

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere. - Emile Durkheim

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics. - May Sarton

A growing number of people can't feel a sense of reality unless they photograph objects and confirm the images with other people. In funeral services, they can't just be satisfied with offering prayers, and choose to take photos to maintain their close relations with deceased people. - Toru Takeda

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. - Joseph Story

A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity. - Bhagavad Gita

A detailed survey plan, including the methods, objects and scope for investigation, i s being drawn up by heritage protection experts. - Zheng Lansheng

[Back to the Hand:] I've been making the boxes for three or four years... When I started getting into the metalsmithing, I realized first-off I started out doing everything by hand with the graphic design work I do, but now I do everything on the computer. I realized what I was missing was the hands-on design. I really fell in love with metalsmithing for that reason. I started out making jewelry and once in a while doing objects. Now I do one to three boxes a year. I make a box, then I do a line of jewelry to go with the box. Basically the box sets the tone for the whole line of jewelry. Each of them works as a functional box. All are one of a kind. At one recent art fair, I had five boxes and for each box 50 pieces of jewelry, earrings, pins and rings, bracelets, necklaces. Lots and lots of earrings. - Holly Stein