Make the workmanship surpass the materials. Ovid
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. Cecil Rhodes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
I don't compose. I assemble materials. Aaron Copland
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Jean Cocteau