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

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

- 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