Material Quotes

It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

In it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand…