Concrete Quotes

• The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual through the senses is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

  

  Ellen Hunnicutt
  • Intellectual
  • Senses
  • Abstract

• Life must be somewhere to be found, instead of #‎ Concrete Jungle .

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Concrete
  • Jungle

• '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

• 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
  • Construction
  • Abstract

• I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

  

  William Baziotes
  • Painting
  • Theory
  • Evolve

• 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

• ..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

• 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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