Material Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words material and/or conditions:

“Style [is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)