Concrete Quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
I try to make concrete that which is abstract. View quote
Juan Gris
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. View quote
Robert Sternberg
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. View quote
Bill Cosby
If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. That's the end. View quote
Agnes Martin
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. View quote
George Carlin
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. View quote
Simone Weil
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. View quote
Ann Druyan
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. (Vitruvius)
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
At a given time some concrete forms are simply there in vision, not less than colors and brightnesses. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. (Daniel Libeskind)
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales... View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form. View quote
Daniel Webster
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. View quote
John Burdett
The abstract kills, the concrete saves. View quote
Sylvia Plath