Materials Quotes
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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
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New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
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The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
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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.
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When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
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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.
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I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
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When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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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.
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Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
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It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
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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.
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What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
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You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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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.
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There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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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.
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The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.
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The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
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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.
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Each material is only what we make it.
