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The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

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I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.

- Patricia Piccinini

source: The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

topic: Audience, Concerned, Materiality

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall

- Frank Stella

source: "With Frank Stella, what you see is what you see. But when the modern master speaks, what you hear may raise your eyebrows."by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2004.

topic: Wall, Gestures, Painting, Abstract Painting, Materiality

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Two Sides, Facts, Spirituality, Materiality

Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological relations are immediately present in these same processes.

- Louis Althusser

source: Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.100, NYU Press

topic: Firsts, Forgotten, Process, Productions, Materiality

We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Physical Health, Materiality

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.

- Robert Barry

topic: Thinking, Mind, Different, Materiality

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materialityâ€ -luce irigaray

- Luce Irigaray

topic: Distance, Eye, Smell, Materiality

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

- Alan Watts

topic: Technology, Civilization, Goal, Modern Civilization, Goal Oriented

The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of Nature which is fuller, richer and sweeter in every way than the best of which the earth dwelling soul dreams. The dross of materiality burned away by the astral vibrations, the soul blossoms and bears spiritual fruit in the new life.

- William Walker Atkinson

source: Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson “The Spiritual Writings”, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Dwelling, Dross, Materiality

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

- Carl Jung

topic: Self, Psychology, Body, Materiality

God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world, making and fashioning all things. Matter could not have acquired an articulated structure were it not for the directing power of the Logos Who is the Image, Intellect, Wisdom, and Providence of God.

- Anthony the Great

topic: Christian, World, Matter, Imprinting, Materiality

I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

- Stephen Beal

topic: Media, Hue, Painting, Materiality

The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.

- Marie Avgeropoulos

topic: Matter, Things That Matter, Materiality, Most Meaningful

Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Attitude, Offering, Generosity, Material Wealth, Attentiveness

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

- Maya Lin

source: Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

topic: Writing, Giving, Trying, Materiality

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

- Charles Gwathmey

topic: Fashion, Color, Discipline, Merchandising, Materiality

Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

- Camille

topic: Sex, Night, Light, Predictability, Materiality

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Spiritual, Giving, Balance, Spiritual Development, Physicality

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

topic: Nature, Science, Anxiety, Predictability, Materiality

In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

- David Adjaye

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Creating, Textiles, World, Hybridity, Materiality

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

- Keanu Reeves

topic: Philosophy, Loss, Emotional, Materiality

If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Materiality, Positive Outcome

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum, Materiality

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

- Amit Goswami

topic: Spiritual, Materials, Materiality, Quantum Physics, Contrary To Popular Belief

We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive emotions like anger and jealousy the same as you, but we all have potential for good too. However, our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Spiritual, Happy Life, Practice, Materiality

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

- Richard M. Weaver

topic: Mean, Men, Giving, Immediacy, Philistines

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

- Sai Baba

topic: Love, Peace, Ambition, Materiality

Man's origin was as spirit, not a physical body. These souls projected themselves into matter, probably for their own diversion. Through the use of his creative powers for selfish purposes, man became entangled in matter and materiality to such an extent that he nearly forgot his divine origin and nature.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Selfish, Men, Creative, Materiality, Creative Power

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

- Esther Hicks

source: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Spiritual, Desire, World, Physicality, Materiality

In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God's purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect - what ye sow, ye reap.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Karma, Blessing, Self, Materiality

All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.

- Astra Taylor

topic: Technology, Media, Stuff, Media Literacy, Materiality

In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Life, Spiritual, Acceptance, Materiality

The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was created, and in which he is redeemed. Don’t knock materiality. God invented it.

- Robert Farrar Capon