Everything Quote by Theaster Gates

Each material is only what we make it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

— Joseph O'Connor

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

— Swami Vivekananda

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

— Maxim Gorky

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s…

— Andy Goldsworthy

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should…

— Aamir Khan

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

— Drew Endy

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material…

— Georges Cuvier

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

— Margaret Mitchell

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

— Michael Heizer