Materials Quotes
Materials Quote of the day
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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.
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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.
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.
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.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.
Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.
Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.
