Sigfried Giedion Quotes
- It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its…
- Art, indeed, began with abstraction.
- The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon,
- Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine,
- Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear…
- Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...