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“The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.”

Hands Form Given Materials Shapes Impress Mechanic Innate Predetermined

Book:Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

Source: Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.”

“Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.”

Men Wealth Wise Materials Fool Amount Satisfaction Material Wealth

Book:The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

“A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.”

Challenges Poor Economy Creative Design Materials Be Creative Functionality

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“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.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.”

Kind Mean Wanted Materials Discovery Substance Sand Metals Introducing Brushes Filing Sawdust

Author:Georges Braque

“The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”

Spirit Artist Materials Yield Stimulus Transmit

Author:Odilon Redon

“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”

Ifs May Important Ideas Different Purpose Universe Sides Materials Method Profound Foolish Despise Contradictory

Author:Neil Postman

“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.”

Men Doe Matter Hands Form Values Process Results Economic Objects Materials Benefits Transformation Productions Handle Contact Producers Consumers Location Availability

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.”

“Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.”

Important Ideas Process Difficult Information Materials Easier Productions Speed Crucial Raw Materials Discarded

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.”

Men World Belief Given Materials Comfort Capitalism Contrary Destroyed Consideration Materialism Motivated Capitalist Vulgar Materialistic Materialistic World

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.”

Mean Matter Opportunity Challenges Subjects Style Materials Available Chosen Painter Conventions Restraint Subject Matter

Book:Sense of Sight

Source: Sense of Sight

“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.”

Giving Art Made Done Earth Names Work Materials Source Honor Connections Users Good Work

Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“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

“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.”

Men Wells Kind Important Body Progress Society Materials Depends Higher Degrees Intellectual Advantage Labor Bread All Kinds Daily Bread

Book:The Descent of Man

Source: The Descent of Man

“Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.”

Materials Please Paper Paint Newspapers Cards Stamps Pipe Postcards Playing Cards Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.”

Should Able Spiritual Individual Social Destiny Achieve Materials Concern Concerned Harmony Blind Prosperity Obligation Welfare Social Obligation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.”

Way Ends Materials Picks Letters Wine My Way Labels Cigarette Old Letters

Book:Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

Source: Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

“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

“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”

Way Giving Two Spirit Progress Color Painting Materials Paint Sensations Progression

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.”

Thinking May Art Ideas Form Belief Attitude Materials Impact Endure Arise

Book:Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

Source: Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.”

Mind May Materials Painter Vain Endeavour

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.”

Mean Doubt Materials Invention No Doubt

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.”

Mind Painting Materials Hundred Painter Bridges Spectators Pretext Material Things

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.”

Mean My Own Materials Individuality

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.”

Art Principles Materials Aesthetic

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

Creative Students Materials Discipline Function Guides Guidance Creative Work

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“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.”

Use Remember Materials Depends Superiors

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.”

Ifs Doe Force Walks Fire Materials Workers Cards Frying Frying Pans

Author:Friedrich Engels

“I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films.”

Knows Feels Film Materials Comfort Comfortable

Author:Elijah Wood

“A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.”

Ideas Certain Materials Amount Realization Contempt Indispensable Employed

Book:Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934

Source: Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934

“I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.”

Feels Has Beens Feelings Artist Materials Apprentice Craftsman Artisans True Feelings

Author:Werner Herzog

“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.”

Mind States Spirit Values Powerful Consciousness Practice Creative Meditation Materials Contact Peaceful Bliss State Of Mind Deep Meditation

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.”

Men Joy Missing He Man Materials Satisfaction Accumulation

Author:Edward Bok

“People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.”

People Children Has Beens Ends Eye Age Materials Including Clever Advertising Exposed Catching Tobacco Eye Catching

Author:Frank Dobson

“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.”

Giving Grows Understanding Materials Happenings Give Me Deeper Make Sense Deeper Understanding

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Painting is so much more than the materials.”

Painting Materials

Author:Brian Johnson

“Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.”

People Way Use Artist Culture Language Materials Ads Insisting Logos Artists And Writers Culture And Language

Author:Naomi Klein

“Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.”

World Matter Spirit Views Materials Tragic Downfall Epoch Collision World View Material World Timeliness

Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“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 is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.”

Christian Materials Bible Pressure

Author:Walter Lang

“Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.”

Knows Painting Materials

Author:David Milne

“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.”

Knows Happens Loses Materials Goes On Mark Paint Brushes

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.”

Thinking Men Art Use Views Influence Materials Point Of View Another Man Representing Implying

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“A canvas is never empty.”

Materials Empty Canvas

Book:Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde

Source: Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde

“I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.”

World Materials Working It Collaboration

Book:Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

Source: Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005