Material Quotes

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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? — Ellen Glasgow
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the… — Cyril Connolly
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes… — Eugene V. Debs
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is… — Mark Strand
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do. — Robert Fripp
Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth. — Richard M. Nixon
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render… — Rosika Schwimmer
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding… — David Chase
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life,… — Hans Hofmann
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite… — Ann Beattie
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in… — Leslie Orgel
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination. — Joshua Reynolds
I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility… — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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