Object Quotes

“Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself, although they do not all do so in the same way. In presentation something is presented, in judgment something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired and so on.”

“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.”

“There is a sadness in clothes, a pathos of the bygone, that is not in skin.”

“To give dignity to the object is my religion.”

“Objects are not simply things, they are containers of stories, loci of memory.”

“I always liked the object quality of a painting.”