Materials Quotes

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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
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,… — Sam Abell
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. — Unknown Author
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
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Unknown Author
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
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig von Mises
Time is the explicable raw material of everything. — Arnold Bennett
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Unknown Author
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski

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