Material Shape

Famous quotes containing the words material and/or shape:

“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)

“But her shape is the least of my madness; she has things by which it is more pleasing to die.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)