“The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.” WritingCharacterStoriesBeautifulMaterialsSmartVery SmartBeautiful WritingThematic Author:Scott Rudin
“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.” SelfBeautifulCitiesPovertyMaterialsDemandEthicsConsciousEssenceSimplicityPrioritiesConsumerismModerationVulgarDeliberateVowSelf ConsciousSuburbsOverconsumptionSuperfluousCabinsHomesteadingLog Cabins Author:David Shi
“There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.” WorldRealWholeCharacterBeautifulLawChoicesSpeakForceExpressionMaterialsCapacityRhythmReal WorldCosmicDelicateBrutalLife Choices Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.” BeautifulFormNatureBuildingMaterialsCreatingDestroyingPullingChasingParticles Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.” I CanDifferentBeautifulGivenStuffIssuesFiguresChangedColorPaintingMaterialsOilMediumsHuePigment Author:Nathan Oliveira
“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.” HumansSoulLightBeautifulLyingSidesBeautySunCreationMaterialsSourceCallingElementsInvestingLovelyPoeticHuman SoulHue Author:Giuseppe Mazzini
“To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.” IfsMenMadeBeautifulSpaceBuildingMaterialsDanceArchitectureMade ItOne ManHis LoveMaterial Things Author:Martha Graham
“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.” WorldLittlesMadeI CanEndsMomentsEyeBeautifulRememberJoyDarkPerfectPleasureBehindsMinesMaterialsPossessionChainsLinksFadesJewelsGemsMaterial PossessionsNecklacesNevermoreNever Fade Author:Myrtle Reed
“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.” LooksPlayBeautifulChallengesAttentionQualityBuildingMaterialsIntegrityApproachModelsSmartConceptsResponseGuitarDetailsExpertsPackagesAlexSelectedAcousticsStunningCraftsmanshipAttention To Detail Author:Alex Lifeson
“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.” WorldEnoughBeautifulSpiritualCultureEasySidesOur LivesMaterialsFineOffersLuckyI RealizedMaterialismBeautiful ThingsConsumedNeglectedGreat SuccessMaterial World Author:Tom Ford
“It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.” Has BeensBeautifulLostTeachNovelMaterialsTypeWastePaperMassWeakIgnorantThrownMetalsFragmentsImmatureSerialsSensationalScum Book:Vegetarianism and Occultism Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism
“Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.” MenWellsBeautifulStuffCenturyMaterialsIgnorantColourWorn Author:Wilkie Collins