Shigeru Ban
Architect
"I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently."
Materials quotes
Materials
241 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme."
Lee Friedlander
Photographer
"You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU."
Tracy Chapman
Singer-Songwriter
"Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"Each material has its own message."
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"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things."
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"The hand is the tool of tools."
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"When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear."
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"Painting is so much more than the materials."
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"Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material."
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"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."
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"It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things."
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"Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God."
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"And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up."
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""Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do."
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"I am careful with my material and presentation."
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"Music is not material. Music is Spiritual."
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"Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work."
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"I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials."
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"The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible."
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"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation."
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"Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be."
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"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."
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"The Absolute is the material of both God and man."
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"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
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