Object Creation Quotes

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?