Materials Quotes

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

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.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

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.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

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

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

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.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

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.

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

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.

Each material has its own message.