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Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy. -- Marina Abramovic
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. -- Bodhidharma
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. -- Lord Byron
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls. -- Paul Bloom
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film. -- Boman Irani
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels. -- Archer John Porter Martin
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe. -- Sam Harris
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. -- Graham Swift
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. -- Brian Eno
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? -- Helmut Jahn
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art. -- Marina Abramovic
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. -- Ang Lee
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. -- Gregor Mendel
Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What made him different was the random element. He introduced the mechanical accident. He was always interested in the immaterial, in sound, smoke, speed, light, shadows. -- Pontus Hulten
On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us. -- Jonathan Haidt
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. -- Fernando Botero
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. -- Wendy Kaminer
My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind. -- Terry Pratchett
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. -- Ron Suskind
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. -- Terence McKenna
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. -- Philo
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. -- Philo
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. -- Thomas Hood
When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. -- Marina Abramovic
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. -- Toyo Ito
I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else. -- Igor Levit
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. -- Max Beckmann
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. -- Igor Levit
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial. -- Blaise Pascal
Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought. -- Bonnie Canino
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. -- Erik Naggum
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. -- Victor Hugo
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift. -- Maya Angelou
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul. -- Heraclitus
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. -- Quintilian
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things. -- Ludwig von Mises
But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918) -- Stefan Zweig
Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government. -- Ludwig von Mises
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. -- Steven Pinker
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul. -- Paul Bloom
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. -- H. G. Wells

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