The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
One has to view things realistically.
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.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.