Material Quotes

“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”

“I think best in wire.”

“I'm not a car person. I don't even have a driver's license.”

“My work has nothing to do with cars. They are just another material.”

“What I'm interested in is the material's memory.”

“For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins.”

“Carving to me is more interesting than modelling, because there is an unlimited variety of materials from which to draw inspiration.”

“Even a brick wants to be something.”

“History is a material for me, as clay is for a sculptor.”

“No man can be a great architect who does not know the value of a brick.”

“Light is a material. It is a fundamental material of architecture.”

“There are a lot of things that are latent in a piece of wood. A piece of wood is not a neutral material.”

“I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world.”

“A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.”

“Every artist must be allowed to mould a picture out of nothing but blotting paper, for example, provided he is capable of moulding a picture.”

“Abuse of the ferro-concrete Frankenstein.”

“A brick building, to be good, must be simple; its ornamentation must be derived from the disposition of the bricks themselves, and in no other way.”

“Light is a very important material. It's an architectural material.”