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I'm not an abstractionist completely.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

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.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

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.