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Materials Quotes - Page 5

A canvas is never empty.

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

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

"Lyra's Oxford". Book by Philip Pullman, 2003.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

"Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter VI, The Question of Price Stability, p. 85, 1937.

There's more to life than physical and material.

FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 29, 2012

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.32, Penguin

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

"A singular writer" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.