The featured artists approach text in a variety of ways; as pure matter, as metaphor, as specific content, as texture or atmosphere, and as concept. (rfpaints.com)
Both ultimately occur within the realm of consciousness, even the tendency toward pure matter. (religion-online.org)
Aristotle (384 - 322BCE), Plato's most brilliant pupil, thought there was a great chain of being from pure matter, which is unknowable, at the bottom, to pure form, which is God, at the top. (religion-online.org)