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“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

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Author:Georges Braque

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.”

Men Art Hands Bigs Force Causes Pleasure Expression Materials Truth Of Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.”

Mind Kind Art Found Pieces Greatness Expression Materials Type All Kinds Surround Daring Minors Great Art Imaginative Collecting Collectors Pompous Unorthodox

Author:Jacques Lipchitz

“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.”

World Real Whole Character Beautiful Law Choices Speak Force Expression Materials Capacity Rhythm Real World Cosmic Delicate Brutal Life Choices

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”

Artist Language Effects Expression Materials Concerned Mediums Limitation English Language Exaggerated

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?”

“The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.”

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Author:Meher Baba

“I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.”

Thinking Doe Different Energy Expression Materials Albums

Author:Kate Bush

“Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.”

Ifs Trying May Enough Able Expression Materials Tasks Fortunate Pace Rip Select Freedom Of Expression Your Freedom Pace Yourself

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.”

Self Expression Materials Offers Self Expression Material Things

Author:Randy Gage

“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”

Art Self Enough Moments Lost Cases Special Expression Materials Broken Concerned Connections Function Experiments Permanent Self Expression Special Moments

Author:Jane Heap

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.”

Men Trying Kind Play Given Roles Trouble Expression Materials Perception Ordinary Data Perceive Consideration Material Things Ordinary Man Foils

Author:J. L. Austin

“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”

Way Needs Trying Humans Long Spiritual Turns Human Beings Loss Creative Expression Materials Including Disaster Fulfillment Goods Acquisition Human Needs Basic Human Needs

Author:Riane Eisler

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.”

Doe Form Lying Order Expression Materials Promise Findings Endure Discovering Fragrance Inventing Raw Materials

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.”

“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.”

Knows Way Want Found Gone Rich Wonderful Impossible Streets Expression Materials Planning Etc Composition Accustomed

Author:Tina Modotti

“I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.”

Ifs Want Song Wish Expression Materials Visuals Colour Vehicle Props

Author:David Bowie

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.”

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Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day

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