Materials Quotes
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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu -
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon Redon
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We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
Nicki Minaj -
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
Steve Albini Big Black -
Last year was a terrible year for both price and availability of construction materials. This year is more in line with historical norms, ... If there's a bright spot, that's it.
Larry Williams -
You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
Amanda Pays -
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.
Antoni Tapies -
The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
Ida Pauline Rolf -
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees -
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
Wright Morris -
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson -
They use their minds to create wealth—not by taking existing materials and turning them into more valuable goods, but by taking existing wealth and putting it toward more valuable uses. In short, financiers don’t create the products that enrich our lives—they help create (and nurture) all the businesses that create the products that enrich our lives.
Yaron Brook
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
Epictetus -
Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition.
Ellen MacArthur -
I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons -
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
Carl Andre -
By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.
Catherine Tate
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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James -
I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
William Whipple -
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
Willem Dafoe