#concrete

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— John C. Crosby

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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. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

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I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

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

— Gustave Courbet

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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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