Material Quotes

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The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.… — Flannery O'Connor
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… — Flannery O'Connor
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I… — Lee Friedlander
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to… — John Szarkowski
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. — Henry Fox Talbot
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold
As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success… — Noam Chomsky
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,… — Lucy Irvine
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's… — Mahatma Gandhi
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. — Craig Mundie
Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either… — Noel 'Razor' Smith
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it… — Paul Romer

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