Concrete Quotes

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

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.

No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.

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

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

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

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

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

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

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

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.