#materials

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#always #am #art #artist #clearly

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#decisive #factor #important #important factor #man

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#appear #because #caged #captured #energy

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#food #got #instruments #italy #machines

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#conquered #control #dependent #energy #europe

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#beef #body #body fat #building #chicken

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#family #government #materials #million #nixon

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#just #made #materials #second-rate #you