I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.