“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”— Alvar Aalto
“Carving to me is more interesting than modelling, because there is an unlimited variety of materials from which to draw inspiration.”— Barbara Hepworth
“I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world.”— Robert Rauschenberg
“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.”— Kurt Schwitters
“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.”— George Edmund Street
“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.”— Andy Goldsworthy