Materials Quotes

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

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 is only what we make it.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The materials shape your idea.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Each material has its own message.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

The hand is the tool of tools.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I work with things left over from other things.

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

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

I am the original Material Girl.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Each material is only what we make it.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.