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

- Sigfried Giedion

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…

- Sigfried Giedion

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

- 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 to t…

- Sigfried Giedion

The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon.

- Sigfried Giedion

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

- Sigfried Giedion