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

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Source : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

Sigfried Giedion

#Artist Quotes #Reality Quotes #Representation Quotes

“[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.”
“Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.”
“Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.”
“I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.”
“It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."”
“There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.”
“The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.”
“I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.”

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