Materials Quotes · Page 19

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

— Zanele Muholi

Loro Piana is all about seeking quality materials.

— Pier Luigi Loro Piana

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

— Girl Talk

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

— Fernand Leger

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

— Melita Norwood

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

— Mindy Kaling

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as…

— Bertrand Russell

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

— Paulo Coelho

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions…

— Tina Fey

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that…

— Alice Neel

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms…

— Phillips Brooks

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules…

— Stanislav Grof

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships,…

— Lee L Jampolsky

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of…

— Frances Wright

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the…

— Rajiv Gandhi

When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them…

— Daniel Handler

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds…

— Edward Conlon

Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial…

— Charles R. Morris

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to…

— Meredith Monk

To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation…

— Nikola Tesla

It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the…

— Eleanor Friedberger

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction…

— Zelda Popkin

For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very…

— Nathan Oliveira

You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at…

— Gena Showalter

If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the…

— Rod Stryker

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of…

— John Stuart Mill

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more…

— James Madison

The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made…

— Henry Petroski

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

— Philip Wylie

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

— Thomas Carlyle

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

— Caroline Gordon

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

— Kenny Rogers

With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

— Robert Genn

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

— Karl Marx

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

— Radhanath Swami

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon