I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

— Carlo Carra

“trying to convert an existing class from concrete to abstract by pushing just the concrete parts down into a new subclass, you might accidentally…

— Anonymous

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

— Pablo Picasso

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…

— M. Ward

“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”

— William Strunk Jr

“The second general division of names is into concrete and abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract…

— John Stuart Mill

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury…

— Sydney Smith

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story;…

— William James

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract.…

— Ernest Fenollosa

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got…

— Emily Carr

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development…

— Rudolf Rocker

Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But…

— Igor Stravinsky