What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. – Natalie Clifford Barney

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gaultier