“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.” NextWhiteHalfSeeingSeaMiddleBuildingStonesSightGlassesWaveHeavyLondonBoatDirtyScoreConcreteFloodSteelBricksSpitRowingSlateFoamSubmergedSpiresAsphalt Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel
“The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.” WellsTreeBuildingMaterialsCitizensStonesSeedsConstructionConcreteBricksTruthfulness Author:Le Corbusier
“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.” MatterPhilosophyHandsMightBeliefImpossibleCryStonesPhilosopherCupsAbstractCandleConcreteStatuesExoticActualityMartyred Author:Shirley Jackson
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesPlayActionEarthDeathSeriousHugeStonesStructureProfoundSignificantGravesConcreteAnother Way Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.” KindArtMadeStillsWarPrinciplesBuildingStonesHarmonyFundamentalsWoodsArchitectureIronConcreteMechanicUnchangeable Author:Ferdinand Foch
“No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!” Life IsStonesConcrete Author:Guy Finley
“The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.” FoundCitiesBuiltStonesAddressesConcreteSlate Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.” IfsWorldLittlesRealitySeemsWould BeFormShapesStonesDistanceEndlessFascinatingConcreteShiftingRelentlessFluidHurryingReinvention Author:Mark Doty