Quotes About Materials

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Scandinavians generally possess an intimate understanding of nature and because of this have a heightened appreciation of the intrinsic qualities of raw materials (especially local ones). The long and rich traditions of craftmanship and folk art that have existed in all five countries demonstrate not only the Scandinavian peoples' empathy for materials, but also their desire to infuse everyday objects with a natural, unpretentious beauty.

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.

In the past, I have approximated the look of monkey fur and yak hair with human hair because it's inexpensive, and it lasts a long time.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

Replacing materials with information" is a more powerful formulation than "replacing ownership with access.

Quakers never haggled, but set what they felt was a fair price for materials and labour. Each product had what was thought of as its own intrinsic merit, be it a carrot or a horseshoe or a quilt, and that did not change simply because many people needed a horseshoe.

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually—art based on some overriding idea—and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.

But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum--carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.

the integration of materials with blockchain technologies could aid in the implementation of a global database for trusted materials sourcing and recycling provenance records.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

His clothes were such elegant confections, beautifully hand-stitched and of such exquisite materials, that Margo was torn between envy at his wardrobe and disgust

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.

What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.