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“... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)”

Men Hands Certain Conditions Materials Limits Labour Representation Tangible Obtaining Veracity

Book:The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools

Source: The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools

“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.”

Knows Kind Today Materials Pornography Obscenity

Author:Potter Stewart

“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.”

Knows Doe Use Powerful Saws Materials Scene Photography Illusion Cameras Unconscious Capture

Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”

World Kind Materials Photography Heroic Material World Overstatement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.”

Thinking Trying Years Nice New York Materials Blue Boxes Combination Dirty Royal

Author:Redd Foxx

“If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.”

Ifs Writing Littles Chance Materials Comedian Write Your Own

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.”

Knows Materials Fodder

Author:Bob Newhart

“When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.”

Ifs Way Trying Hard Remember Used Found Forget Fields Materials Edges Working It Continuity Hunches

Author:Dorothea Lange

“Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.”

Men Moral Progress Materials Discovery

Author:Clement Attlee

“However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.”

May Lying Materials Photograph Raw Materials

Author:Wright Morris

“They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.”

People Materials Source

Author:Carol Leifer

“A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.”

Pieces Objects Materials Paper Photograph

Book:Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

“I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.”

Ifs Trying Challenges Comedy Materials Projects Excited New Projects

Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.”

Ifs Want Action Film Stuff Comedy Fans Materials Horror Action Films Horror Fans

Author:James Wan

“I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.”

People Writing Looks Sometimes Wish Ability Materials Scratches

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.”

Materials Discipline Creating

Author:Roberto Orci

“Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that character, but it was really cool because, as we were figuring these characters out, I realized that there was a lot more backstory, rather than what I had gotten just from reading the book. Glenn doesn't really get much of a backstory there. He's just seen as this kid who is put in this situation, not knowing where his mind-set is, but then you slowly see him start to develop.”

Mind Book Character Kids Wanted Reading Situation Knowing Fans Materials Source I Realized Not Knowing Really Cool Mind Set

Author:Steven Yeun

“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.”

People Thinking Feels Heart Kind Mean Made Bigs Wanted Turns Goal Audience Comedy Rocks Materials Surprise Excited Reactions Hopefully Extras Rock And Roll Having Hope Road Trip

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.”

People Mean Whole Stuff Materials Scene Jokes Extras Reviews Sequence Trailers

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.”

Writing Character Actors Materials Development Really Great Character Development Great Writing Great Character

Author:Matt Lauria

“When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.”

Needs Feels Writing Creative Materials Directors Partners Cracks

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.”

Self Purpose Ability Knowing Self Esteem Materials Esteem Purpose Of Life Attributes

Author:Common

“In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.”

Needs Writing I Can Use Form Novel Materials Relief

Author:Rick Moody

“We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.”

Mean Certain Turns Forget Emotion Practice Materials Conscious Oneself Refuse Active Endeavor Passive Fiery Repetitive Haul

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“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

“Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.”

Stage Materials Lessons Performances Concentration Evaluate Delivery Lesson Learned Stage Presence

Author:Franklyn Ajaye

“What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.”

Lasts Form Chance Materials Surprise Photographer Pursue Refuge Penetrate

Author:Brassai

“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.”

Thinking Firsts Art Ideas Used Pieces Materials Photography Commitment Photographer Photograph Mediums Eras Just One Recalls

Author:William Wegman

“The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.”

Light Materials Speed Code Fixed Dna Containers Speed Of Light Defying

Author:Bill Viola

“I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.”

People Thinking Shows Bits Materials Pure Jokes Theater Crowds Excited Versions Hanging Out Polite Hecklers

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.”

Way Persons Stories Comedy Worst Materials Thirds Upset Blogs Third Person

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.”

Television Materials Huge Amount Notes Presenting Workload Placating

Author:Louis C. K.

“Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.”

People Ifs Two Hard Lasts Materials Harder Cycles Climbing Credibility

Author:Louis C. K.

“My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.”

Asks Wife Materials Regret Careful Exes I Regret Ex Wife

Author:Louis C. K.

“I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.”

Thinking Feelings Emotional Materials Packing Doritos

Author:Dana Gould

“Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.”

Shows Guy Walks Materials Desks Offended Cables Larry Conan Conan O Brien

Author:Andy Kindler

“You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.”

Writing Trying Home Next Stage Materials Next Day Trash Back Home Trash Cans

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.”

Knows Together Know How Comedy Subjects Materials

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.”

People Ifs Writing Firsts Play Would Be School Used Fun Stuff Records Comedy Player Brother Materials Mom High School Bills Albums My Brother Grades Funny Stuff Record Players

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.”

People Ifs Believe Reason Wanted Materials Deserve Don't Believe Stealing Reason Why Contests Rumor

Author:Carlos Mencia

“I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.”

Trying Poverty Struggle Materials Abundance Unlimited Whatever It Takes

Author:Dat Phan

“I can always create new material. That's something I can control.”

I Can Materials

Author:Godfrey

“I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.”

Men I Can Running Laughing Growing Up Comedy Growing Written Stage Materials Paint Comedian Treadmills Anything And Everything Physical Comedy

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.”

Humans Reality Age Magic Materials Resources Tragedy Mad Steel Machinery Clockwork Wasted Life Misused

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.”

Facts Emotion Materials Despite Sole Pictorial Thoughts And Emotions

Book:Model

Source: Model

“Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.”

Creativity Materials Surprise Unpredictability

Author:Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

World Wells Levels Materials Photograph Have Faith Validity Material World

Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world

“If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.”

Ifs Trying Looks Kind Ideas Lost Records Materials Nostalgic

Author:Thomas Struth

“For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.”

Art Practice Materials Photography Notion Separation Commerce Formal Rejecting Semiotics

Book:Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

Source: Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies

“We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.”

Thinking Knows World May Littles Order Three Hours Darkness Wind Materials Cold Mass Weight Islands Traveled Fossils Spectacular Capes Embryos More Knowledge

Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard