“Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.” FirstsPrinciplesMaterialsConvictionSensesClarityRecognitionRaw MaterialsDecisivenessHume Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions
“What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.” PeopleFirstsIdeasDoneSidesPaintingMaterialsFinishedCrafts Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.” FirstsArtMomentsProblemTogetherMemoriesViewsMaterialsAimPatientCommunicateSolveUnconsciousConstructionPhysiciansConcealedPsychoanalysisTherapeuticAnalystsInterpretingRight MomentAnalysing Author:Sigmund Freud
“Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.” FirstsProblemSpiritualMoralEconomicMaterialsIntellectualProsperityEconomic Prosperity Author:Ludwig von Mises
“I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.” FirstsActionFilmBitsTakenToo MuchMaterialsSceneDirectPerformancesBiggerTownsTensionScopeSequenceGeographyArgo Author:Ben Affleck
“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.” IfsFirstsSaidHomeChallengesChangedColorMaterialsTomorrowI RealizedComedianCrutchesYou Changed Author:Bill Cosby
“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.” ThinkingFirstsArtIdeasUsedPiecesMaterialsPhotographyCommitmentPhotographerPhotographMediumsErasJust OneRecalls Author:William Wegman
“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.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsPlayWould BeSchoolUsedFunStuffRecordsComedyPlayerBrotherMaterialsMomHigh SchoolBillsAlbumsMy BrotherGradesFunny StuffRecord Players Author:Felipe Esparza
“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.” WorldYearsFirstsWantedLastsSongStepsGrowing UpFocusGrowingMaterialsTheaterInspiredMusicalFirst StepsSteps ForwardMusical Theater Author:Josh Groban
“The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.” FirstsLooksBrainFiguresMaterialsOughtChecksVerify Author:Noam Chomsky
“I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined.” WayWantShouldFirstsStoriesPoliticalCertainReadingSawsCuttingMaterialsReaderNeededFinalsSooner Or LaterRoutesRaw Materials Author:Roy Kesey
“If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.” PeopleIfsFirstsPersonsEnoughStoriesMemoriesSubjectsMaterialsInterpretationJust BeingFirst Person Author:Brian Lindstrom
“From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.” FirstsCharacterFeltMaterialsCoupleScriptsJessicaGroundbreakingJessica Jones Author:Krysten Ritter
“If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to.” IfsYearsFirstsI CanDoneMightFiveMaterialsSixPagesDrunkPrinted Author:Richard Meltzer
“Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?” KnowsFirstsFilmInterestingMaterialsProjectsPreparedTrialsLiberationAlliesLitTubesDid You KnowCourtroomCompilationNurembergDachau Author:Errol Morris
“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsKindMadeIdeasRememberNamesInterestingMaterialsHundredAspectBreatheMade ItAtmosphereGreekGasPoeticTranslateIntriguingNeonXenon Author:Robert Barry