Materials Quotes · Page 12

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

— Richard M. Weaver

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

— John Updike

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

— Shri Radhe Maa

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

— Kit Williams

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

— Susan Sullivan

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is…

— Tarek Saab

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book.…

— Ryan Reynolds

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now…

— Regina King

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

— George Carlin

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be…

— Anonymous

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…

— Anonymous

Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things…

— Arthur Carhart

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and…

— Joyelle McSweeney

If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's…

— Jason Graae

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part…

— Oscar Isaac

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what…

— George Santayana

The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet…

— Bill McKibben

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for…

— Burt Ward

For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth…

— Gary Snyder

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,…

— Tim Ferriss

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in…

— Harold Monro

I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot…

— James Franco

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or…

— Anonymous

Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this…

— Gary Zukav

Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive…

— Antoni Tapies

When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…

— John Dewey

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

— Roberto Orci

Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

— Mike Epps

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.

— Mimi Pond

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

— Kathryn Bigelow

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

— James McBride