Concrete Quotes

• So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Cutting

• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  

  Carl G. Fisher
  • America
  • Science
  • Materials

• I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

  

  William Baziotes
  • Painting
  • Theory
  • Evolve

• Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

  

  Carlo Carra
  • Passionate
  • Abstract
  • Construction

• 'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Song
  • Record
  • Abstract

• ..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Term
  • Concrete

• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Direct
  • Representation

• Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Political
  • Dangerous
  • Politician

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

  

  Helen Keller
  • Abstract
  • Plenty
  • Concrete

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