Sigfried Giedion quotes
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“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 power of concentration upon absolute essentials.”
-- Sigfried GiedionSource : "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".
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“Art, indeed, began with abstraction.”
-- Sigfried GiedionSource : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
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“Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine,”
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“The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon,”
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“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 at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.”
-- Sigfried GiedionSource : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
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“Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...”
-- Sigfried GiedionSource : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”
Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
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“When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.”
Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.
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