Full Abstraction

Famous quotes containing the words full and/or abstraction:

    “It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
    Is full of long motions; as the ponderous
    Deflations of distance; or as clouds
    Inseparable from their afternoons....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “When truth is nothing but the truth, it’s unnatural, it’s an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. That’s why art moves you—precisely because it’s unadulterated with all the irrelevancies of real life.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)