Best 71 quotes in «concrete quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

A concrete city creates concrete-people! But what the humanity needs is flower-people, cloud-people, stream-people, butterfly-people, and forest-people!

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

When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

...America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.

Her zaman en tepedekini, en itinalıyı, en esaslıyı, en olağandışı olanı, hem de daima sadece en aşağılığın ve en yüzeyselin ve en bayağının fark edildiği yerde talep etmemiz gerçekten de hasta ediyor insanı. İnsanı ileriye götürmüyor, öldürüyor onu. Yükselişi beklediğimiz yerde çöküşü görüyoruz, umudumuz olduğu yerde umutsuzluğu görüyoruz, kendi hatamız bu, kendi şanssızlığımız.

God has purpose for every man to fulfill certain tasks and attain concrete goals

Concrete breathes sun's heat.

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

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.

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.

Time is a concrete product

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!

It's hard to push up against a wall, when you are the wall.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

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

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

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

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