Materials Quotes
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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.
Rene Redzepi -
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
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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu -
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 -
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
Nicki Minaj -
The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
Ida Pauline Rolf -
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.
William Wegman -
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 -
We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
Vladimir Lenin -
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees -
You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
Amanda Pays -
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson -
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
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
Wright Morris -
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 -
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
Epictetus -
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 -
Each material is only what we make it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
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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 -
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 -
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.
William Henry Bragg -
'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