290 Objects Quotes for You to Enjoy

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranath Tagore

Art Man Objects Himself Reveals His

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

Creative Mind Creation Something Objects Something New Instinct New Accomplished Intellect Loves Acting Creative Mind Play Inner Necessity Plays

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. Claude Monet

You Try Before Whatever Own Field Think Tree Exact Objects Scene Gives Color Shape Merely Until House Looks Pink Yellow Impression Square Forget Blue Just Little Your Paint Streak Here

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel

Truth Memories Truth Is People Words Think Follow Shadows Objects Ideas Most Also Surround Precede Impulses Deeds Beings Desires

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

Strength Stronger Opposing Objects Invisible Within Us Grows Desire Two

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. James Madison

Government Property Rights Protection Objects Instituted Which Persons

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. P. J. O'Rourke

You Gossip Say About Objects Flattery Present

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. Aristotle

Words Language Thought Rare Three Poet Other Imitate Ought Must Objects Vehicle Like Terms Said Metaphors Were Current Any Artist May Being Either Painter Expression Things Necessity

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. Martha Beck

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. Nelson Mandela

Freedom Fight Communism Active Correspond Would Objects Colonial Long-Term Countries Because Always Role Movements Short-Term Communists Played

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson

Hope Future Natural Losing Mind Before Satisfied Pleasure Immediately Objects Schemes Never Felicity Always Itself Human Breaking Human Mind Flights Moment Away Present Present Moment