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Concrete Quotes

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

Work Music Influence You Concrete

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Simple Thinking Problem Concrete

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Justice Facts Concrete Always Fought

Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Value Ideas Potential Concrete Real

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

John Prendergast

Suffering World Doing Goal Concrete

I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?

Value Corruption Concrete Anything

If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

Demetrious Johnson

Truck End You Look Jump Concrete

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

Annabelle Selldorf

People Remember Young Concrete Knew

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Start Saying Potential Down Concrete

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

Mind More Concrete Violent Less

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

Art Painting Concrete Real Things

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Cristela Alonzo

Concrete Steps Becoming Comic Any

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Artist Individuality Concrete Things

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

Time Poetry Too Much More Concrete

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Good Art Will Concrete Abstract

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy Concrete Only Most

I don't like concrete jungles.

Callan McAuliffe

The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.

Me Concrete Printing Scary Out Idea

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.

John Ralston Saul

Good Democracy Finding Way Concrete

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

Beginning First Concrete Concerts

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

Road More Hard Concrete Bones Offer

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Mind Detail Concrete Things May

The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.

Thomas Heatherwick

Learning Together Space Concrete

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

War World Achieve Sometimes Concrete

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