Materials Quotes - Page 6

• This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Blood

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• The hand in the eye is the ultimate tool.

  Randy Sanders

  Eye, Hands, Tools

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• Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Giving, Understanding, Grows

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• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

  Graham Greene

  Movie, Book, Actors

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• If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.

  Kathy Griffin

  Friday, Night, Different

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• 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 seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  Odilon Redon

  Artist, Yield, Spirit

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• 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 of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.

  John Constable

  Art, Light, Yellow

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, May, Vain

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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• A canvas is never empty.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Canvas, Empty

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.21, MIT Press

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• Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

  James Elkins

  Years, Trying, Want

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.187, Routledge

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• The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

  David Batchelor

  Essentials, Use

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• Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

  Billy Joel

  Careers, Together, Whole

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• It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Venice, Splits, Littles

  Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

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• I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

  Alicia Keys

  Life Is, Happens, Material Things

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• Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Swings, Missing, Champagne

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Everyday, Needs, World

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• Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

  Alan Ladd

  Strong, Enough, Weak

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• I work with things left over from other things.

  Julian Schnabel

  Left

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• By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Presidential, Political

  "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  Henry Taube

  Moving, Science, Numbers

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Inspiration, Science

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• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  Walter Martin

  Success, Congratulations, Medicine

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