Material Quotes

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Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man;… — Sathya Sai Baba
Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned… — Sathya Sai Baba
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big… — Robert Henri
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't… — Robert Henri
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,… — Eugene Delacroix
I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. — V.S. Naipaul
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than… — Elijah Wood
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray
With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest… — Edward Bok
People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going… — Frank Dobson
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in… — Naomi Klein
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky
There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material. — Walter Lang
Anything is good painting material once you get to know it. — David Milne
I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just… — Robert Rauschenberg
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. — Kiki Smith

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