There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.


Walead Beshty

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There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
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Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation; either it is material or spiritual.
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The photons are smaller than the distance between atoms in the material.
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there is material in the report that the public should know.
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It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
BEN SHAHN
I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.
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Good material is good material.
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CARL HIAASEN
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BEN FOLDS
You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
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SAM UNDERWOOD
The forming of the material changed, but you still use the same material.
JOSEPH LAWRENCE
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LESTER B. PEARSON
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RACHEL WEISZ
There's plenty of material out there.
HOWARD BLOOM
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PETER BRIMELOW
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relation...
CALEB CARR
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
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Material things don't matter.
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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, bas...
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MEG CABOT
Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.
GRAHAM ALLISON
God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development...
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