Century Quote by Sigfried Giedion

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

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

— Jerry Saltz

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes…

— Piet Mondrian

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion…

— Jacob Epstein

“I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a…

— Paul Valery

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

“the human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change ”

— Dan Brown

“The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the…

— Dan Brown

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even…

— John Stuart Mill

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson