Best 71 quotes in «concrete quotes» category

Nature has no beauty forbidden Manmade concrete slab: guilt-ridden Wings or leaves whatever we may care Those limbs with the birds only trees will share

Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic visibility to mathematical ideas.

New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways

Time is a concrete product

The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind. Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things? Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.

Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!

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

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

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

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

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.

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.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 power which gave it birth-yourself.

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

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

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

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

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.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.