Quote by Barbara Bolt

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

— Arshile Gorky

“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that…

— Luis Barragan

“If we don't have pictures in our minds when we read, then it is the interaction of ideas - the intermingling of abstract relationships…

— Peter Mendelsund

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

— Wesley Morris

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

— Sol Stein

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

“A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time”

— Marjan van den Belt