"I try to make concrete that which is abstract."

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Source : Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of "L'Esprit Nouveau" # 5, February 1921.

Juan Gris

#Trying Quotes #Abstract Quotes #Concrete Quotes

“The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.”
“In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.”

Source : "Mario denies rumors about 'Idol' departure". Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.
“All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.”
“I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!”
“As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,”
“We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.”
“If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.”
“There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.”

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