Sigfried Giedion Quotes

The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon.

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

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.