Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light.Â What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow… — Louis Kahn
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled… — Louis Kahn
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — Isamu Noguchi
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which… — Isamu Noguchi
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. — Wallace Stegner
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. — George W. Bush
We now haveÂ irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high… — Dick Cheney
Make the workmanship surpass the materials. — Unknown Author
Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we… — Ellen MacArthur
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and… — Sunita Narain
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing… — Barack Obama
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I… — Lee Friedlander
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru… — Edward Abbey
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. — Thomas Paine
I don't think I'm going to be priest material. — Lionel Richie

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