Concrete Quotes

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong,
all concrete responsibility vanishes.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

I don't like concrete jungles.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

Commies love concrete.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.