Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then… — Hartley Coleridge
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. — Odilon Redon
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different… — Neil Postman
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result… — Thomas Sowell
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.… — Thomas Sowell
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,… — John Berger
The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of… — Wendell Berry
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the… — Dogen
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
To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with… — Robert Motherwell
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
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light… — John Constable

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