Abstract monkeys

We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.

"The signs of language transgress abstraction's code of ineffable silence and unreadability."

The sentiments expressed by this face are precisely that demand for empathy which modernist abstraction had to renounce;

A limitation in coping with abstraction presents the greatest barrier to doing mathematics.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Salvador Dali