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No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
No blueprint can be created until the components you are working with are fully comprehended.
2.
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.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
We must recollect that the outcome is contingent on our utilization of a material, not necessarily the material itself... Fresh materials are not inherently better. Each substance is only what we render it.
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The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
Ida Rolf
4.
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
Shigeru Ban
5.
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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike
7.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
Pope Francis
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.
Yohji Yamamoto
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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
David Ricardo
12.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
George MacDonald
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You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
Lee Friedlander
14.
Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.
Hillary Clinton
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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
Tracy Chapman
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks
18.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
Novalis
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As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.
Michael Bolton
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
Walt Whitman
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I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
John Chamberlain
27.
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
Sophia Loren
29.
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
Michael Heizer
30.
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
Philip Roth
31.
The biggest things in life are not materials.
Carlos Slim
32.
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
Marc Newson
33.
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
Graham Sutherland
34.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. Salinger
35.
It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.
Theaster Gates
36.
I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
Anthony Kiedis
37.
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
Kelly Gallagher
39.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
Karl Marx
40.
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
Jerry Garcia
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A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
Harold Laski
44.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
Alexis de Tocqueville
45.
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.
Randy Gage
46.
"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
Daniel Baldwin
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
P. J. O'Rourke
49.
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
Cathy Guisewite
50.
Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
Sun Ra