“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.” WantStillsStatesNatureEmotionalInspireFoundationPainterAbstractUrges Author:Piet Mondrian
“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.” LyingNatureShapesCreatingAbsolutesAbstract Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'” ThinkingWorldScienceNatureNaturalAnswersConcernTasksPhysicsAbstractDescriptionQuantumQuantum PhysicsQuantum Theory Author:Niels Bohr