Quotes About Substance

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Finally, although Tennent's Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging? I think lighter fuel is better for you and contains fewer chemicals.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

The substance of thought – ideas – was far more real than the substance of the phenomenal world. Thinking, alone and unaided, could attain to the Good, the Beautiful and the True. This belief in the intrinsic ability of thinking to reach ultimate truth permeated deeply, though with growing doubts, into the Middle Ages.

The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.

does it matter?

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

More matter with less art.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.