Quotes About Concreteness

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

The intense clarity of the image failed to satisfy us, for it seemed to hide as much as it revealed; and while it seemed to invite us to pierce the veil and examine the mystery behind it, its luminous concreteness nevertheless held the eye entranced and kept it from probing deeper

I love the thinginess of things.

This is how concreteness helps us understand—it helps us construct higher, more abstract insights on the building blocks of our existing knowledge and perceptions. Abstraction demands some concrete foundation. Trying to teach an abstract principle without concrete foundations is like trying to start a house by building a roof in the air.

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story. A clever observer will note that this sentence can be compacted into the acronym SUCCESs. This

Science repulses the indefinite.

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.

Here in Turin you can write because past and future have greater prominence than the present, the force of past history and the anticipation of the future give a concreteness and sense to the discrete, ordered images of today. Turin is a city which entices the reader towards vigour, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way toward madness.

This sense of concreteness that you perceived at the very first line bears in it also the sense of loss, the vertigo of dissolution, and you realize that you perceived this, too, alert Reader that you are, from the first page, when though pleased with the precision of this writing, you sensed that, to tell the truth, everything was slip through your fingers…

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from spiritual synesthesia of insight into logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where mental gourmets gather cognitive hyperrealism of clarity, aesthetic awareness.

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from the spiritual insight of logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where the mental gourmets of aesthetic awareness gather.

Because paper is a thing," I say, "and sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.