#material

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#against #allowed #another #country #court

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. ↗

— John Hersey

#defense #fabricate #failure #materials #mine

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#improves #material #never #quite #same

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ↗

— Lord Byron

#acting #am #delightful #good #good acting

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#always #been #creative #expand #finding

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ↗

— William James

#conceptual #experience #flux #furnishes #gave

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. ↗

— John Corigliano

#challenge #composers #concert #concert hall #enormous

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#feeling #freedom #highways #kind #lost

Hope is the raw material of losers. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#losers #material #raw #raw material