Best 71 quotes in «concrete quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

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.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

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.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

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

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

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.

I don't like concrete jungles.

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

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

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

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

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

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

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

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

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

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

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

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

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

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

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

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

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

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

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

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

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.