Abstraction Quote by Sigfried Giedion Download Open image “Art, indeed, began with abstraction.” — Sigfried Giedion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Art Funny Inspirational Love
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso” — Edward B. Burger Copy Share Image
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago... — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
