Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."
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Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"The abstract kills, the concrete saves."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality."
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"The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy."
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"The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."
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"...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important."
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"The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete."
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"God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is."
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"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person."
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"My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives."
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"Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love."
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"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."
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