The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.
I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.
I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want to shoot the film, how I want to edit the movie, what I want the sound to sound like. So I have a very concrete idea even if I don't storyboard it, I know exactly what I want to do once I get into the sequence. Now having said that, I try not to let that slave me to the process. So if I do storyboard a sequence I don't necessarily stick to it if I discover more exciting things on set.
There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.
You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie. . . it's all some kind of an escape.
Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
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.
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.
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete.
Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.