Full Abstraction

Famous quotes containing the words full and/or abstraction:

“A full stomach and warm clothing leave one free for lustful thoughts.”
—Chinese proverb.

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)