#material

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#days #depressing #family #guilty #guilty pleasure

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#car #day #delta #door #every

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you. ↗

— James D. Houston

#chooses #material #sometimes #you

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. ↗

— Eric Idle

#charge #commune #decide #i #i think

Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago. ↗

— John Landis

#business #comes #convince #different #give

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with. ↗

— Ang Lee

#choose #i #life #living #material

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#artist #artwork #concern #exactly #experience

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#materialism #simplicity #change

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world. ↗

— Claire Cross

#mark-on-the-world #materialism #dreams

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends