“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.” WayWritingFirstsLooksStoriesHappensFictionStrangeMaterialsBeastObserversFiction Writers Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.” IfsThinkingWritingHappensStuffMaterialsDown AndNotesPhonesCome UpAlways Thinking Author:Wanda Sykes
“With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.” KnowsHappensLosesMaterialsGoes OnMarkPaintBrushes Author:Gerhard Richter
“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.” ThinkingWayDoneDreamHappensLawPiecesMaterialsTomorrowConceptsAccomplishPhysicsConstructionNew WaysFrontiersHardwareLaws Of Physics Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.” WorldKindArtHappensFashionMaterialsStatementsDeliberate Book:Art For Dummies Source: Art For Dummies
“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.” MomentsStoriesProblemSeemsHappensUniverseNextTermMaterialsMythNuclearBeing TrueFantasticVisualsSunsetEpicNo ProblemSplendorFusionRotationNuclear Fusion Author:Ursula Goodenough
“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.” MatterWholeFactsBodyHappensObjectsMaterialsShadowAreasStructureCastsCeaseOrganizedAffectedPhenomenonCyclingSustainingHyperDegradingEntropyMetabolism Author:Terence McKenna
“I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.” ThinkingWellsHappensCoursesCausesStuffWrittenMagicMaterialsSticksStuff HappensThespians Author:Regina Hall
“Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.” PeopleWayArtHappensArtistMaterialsMouthsVoteStudiosYou ChooseBeing An ArtistRaw Materials Author:Teresita Fernandez