Nonobjective Quotes

#1. For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express.

John Dieterich

#2. The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

Edmund White

#3. Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Richard Whately

#5. Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting.

Hilla Von Rebay

#6. 'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract ... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Richard Diebenkorn

#7. FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim.

Ayn Rand

#8. The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Gertrude Stein

#9. My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Agnes Martin

#10. He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Jackson Pollock

#11. She wanted to hit him with something, not in a lethal manner, but hard.

Joanna Bourne

#12. Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

John Tavener

#13. Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Robin Williams

#14. Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

A.B. Simpson

#15. Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

Laozi

#16. I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests.

Marlene Nall Johnt

#17. With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

James G. Frazer

#18. Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#19. When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

G. Willow Wilson

#20. I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

Amanda Donohoe