Materials Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.

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.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

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

It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.

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

Painting is so much more than the materials.

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

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

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

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

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

I work with things left over from other things.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

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

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

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

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