Quotes About Materials

#1. I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Francis Bacon

#2. In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.

Alan J. Heeger

#3. The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

Mervyn Levy

#4. A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his work, he must arrange, modify, and dispose of his materials so that they may appear in a more agreeable and beautiful manner than they would have assumed without his interference.

Henry Peach Robinson

#5. The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!

Amber Valletta

#7. a clutter of toys and materials actually makes for less play - it's all too much choice. If

Steve Biddulph

#8. Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Charlton Heston

#9. I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

Paul Caponigro

#10. I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.

Busy Philipps

#11. With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Carmelo Anthony

#12. In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

John Darnielle

#14. The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.

Marvin Ammori

#15. Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters

George Monbiot

#16. With cooking, plants and animals became the raw materials for food, not food itself.

Rachel Laudan

#17. For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#18. Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

Pope John Paul II

#19. Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Edward Thorndike

#20. The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

Bill Nye

#21. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

William McDonough

#22. ...If we can achieve this, then one day whole rooms, buildings, perhaps even bridges may generate their own energy, funnel it to where it is needed, detect damage, and self-heal. If this seems like science fiction, bear in mind that it is only what living materials do already.

Mark Miodownik

#23. We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#24. One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...

Marthe Bibesco

#25. On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Colleen Atwood

#26. Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler

#27. Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

Walter J. Phillips

#28. Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Gianni Agnelli

#29. The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Robert Hall

#31. Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

Freeman Patterson

#32. We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Jochen Zeitz

#33. The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age ... A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.

Daniel Pipes

#34. Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction.

Paul B. Preciado

#35. [We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

Regina E. Dugan

#36. The Lord takes raw materials, shapes them and refines them.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#37. A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

Maurice Strong

#38. The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.

Sam Maloof

#39. I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Miuccia Prada

#40. Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

Svante Arrhenius

#41. One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Jasper Johns

#42. The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

Twyla Tharp

#43. After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.

Susan Eisenhower

#44. The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

Susan Faludi

#45. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

Abraham Lincoln

#46. I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

Pope Francis

#47. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

Mike Schmoker

#48. Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.

Marisha Pessl

#49. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#50. The ship was old, patched and ramshackle, as if repairs were done on the hop with whatever materials could be scavenged.

J. Frances Crane

#51. I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Odilon Redon

#52. I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.

Dave McKean

#53. Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

Alvar Aalto

#54. Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

Oscar Isaac

#55. There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

Kij Johnson

#56. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

Sam Wineburg

#57. It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

Tom Colicchio

#58. That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Matt Lauria

#59. Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

Cedric J. Robinson

#60. The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#61. 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

#62. We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

Ramez Naam

#63. the real causes of any existing depression. For the real causes, most of the time, are maladjustments within the wage-cost-price structure: maladjustments between wages and prices, between prices of raw materials and prices of finished goods, or between one price and another or one wage and another.

Henry Hazlitt

#64. Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Michael Tippett

#65. For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

Dan Phillips

#66. Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ...

Natalie

#67. Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

James Ellis

#68. However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

Wright Morris

#69. The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

C.S. Lewis

#70. Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Dan Shechtman

#71. And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

Robert Sternberg

#72. Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Herbert Hoover

#73. Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility ... Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Susan Sontag

#74. Words are our raw materials, how we string them them together our art.

Michael W. Smart

#75. The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

Peter Morville

#76. Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

James Boswell

#77. Apple has a complex suite of proprietary technologies, both in hardware (like superior touchscreen materials) and software (like touchscreen interfaces purpose-designed for specific materials).

Peter Thiel

#78. Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

Mark Bauerlein

#79. Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

#80. Remember: I am a cartoonist. If you follow my advice on safety around nuclear materials, you probably deserve whatever happens to you.

Randall Munroe

#81. Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Tadao Ando

#82. Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

Henry David Thoreau

#83. Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense, it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.

Don DeLillo

#84. I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

Jessica Hart

#85. Design is ... above all an effort to improve reality ... I always try to begin with considerations of its function ... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on ...

Gianfranco Frattini

#86. Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#87. I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

John Chamberlain

#88. As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.

Rashid Johnson

#89. It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.

Rusty Schweickart

#90. I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

Vik Muniz

#91. A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Norman Mailer

#92. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome.

Nick Harkaway

#93. Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

John Maeda

#94. There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

Azzedine Alaia

#95. I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Jed S. Rakoff

#96. Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Jim Rowe

#97. I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them.

Helmut Lang

#98. America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

Kit Bond

#99. I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

David Trubridge

#100. Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Flavius Josephus