Materials Quotes · Page 20

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

— Jean Cocteau

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

— Helen Gurley Brown

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

— Matt LeBlanc

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

— Patrick J. Adams

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.

— Joshua Reynolds

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

— Echo Bodine

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

— Charles Kettering

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice…

— Greg Lynn

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything…

— Common

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

— Emily Dickinson

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with…

— Steven Solomon

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge…

— Ayn Rand

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any…

— Wim Wenders

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the…

— Sergei Eisenstein

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath…

— Jon Landau

Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,…

— Jonas Hallgrimsson

To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But…

— Madeline Hunter

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes…

— William McDonough

I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I…

— Rosamond Lehmann

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one…

— T. S. Eliot

We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption…

— Nikola Tesla

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,…

— James Joyce

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

— Aldo Leopold

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

— Francine Prose

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

— Frederick Lenz

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

— Antoni Tapies

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

— Dalai Lama

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

— Dan Colen

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

— Virginia Woolf

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

— Joseph Hume