Object Value Quotes

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

Tools have their own integrity.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Do not underestimate objects.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.