Quotes About Materials

Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

Skeuomorphic is the technical term for incorporating old, familiar ideas into new technologies, even though they no longer play a functional role. Skeuomorphic designs are often comfortable for traditionalists, and indeed the history of technology shows that new technologies and materials often slavishly imitate the old for no apparent reason except that is what people know how to do. Early

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections.

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections in materials and structures.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

Geralmente a nascença dos estylos se origina ou das necessidades características de cada povo, pelos materiaes mais accessiveis, pela natureza do solo ou do clima, ou então por um desses fortes movi- mentos espirituaes que modificam a situação do homem em face da cousa publica, dando-lhe novas necessidades e deveres...

The Old Fortress at Tirfang, it had a bad name: witches built it, raised it by magic, infecting even the ordinary materials in which they worked—stone, timber, and slate—with their dark sorceries.

Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

What is important is not whether an essence smells beautiful on its own but how its idiosyncratic capacities and elements merge and blend with chosen others to create a beautiful new smell. For a perfumer to dislike patchouli or vetiver is like a painter disliking green or yellow. Essences are simply materials with which to realize a vision, and while every perfumer will have favorites, every essence has a place in skilled hands.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

would have required the skins of over 1,500 calves.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.