“ A straight line as defined by geometry cannot appear in nature. Still we characterize the visible limit of an ocean plane, the steppe horizon, a shaft of light, or the meeting of crystalline surfaces as a straight line. The rarity of lines in nature points out a fundamental difference between art and the natural world. For art, even if it does imitate nature, is by necessity abstraction and therefore between the realm of geometry and the organic.
— Excerpt taken from Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher/Josef Albers (1961)
