Irrelevant Material Quotes

#1. To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Ben Shahn

#2. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

Elizabeth Wein

#3. Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

David B. Haight

#4. There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the screening room will say, 'hey, there's a modern air conditioner in that window.' It's a process.

Todd Haynes

#5. It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.

Ilona Andrews

#6. I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Sigmund Freud

#7. I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
So then why get upset if somebody like me
Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

Al Yankovic

#8. It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

William Ernest Henley

#9. What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand monasteries, temples, and shrines, 99 percent were either looted or totally destroyed. In

Heinrich Harrer

#10. I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.

John Salley

#11. Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Dave Ramsey

#12. The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Lee Hall

#13. Everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?

Amos Oz

#14. The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

Alan Shearer

#15. Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock ...

Philip Larkin

#16. Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

John Sununu