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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.

— Max Beckmann

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

— ASAP Ferg

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.

— Jane Campion

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

— Zack Snyder

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

— Chuck Close

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

— Tom Weston-Jones

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Constantin Brancusi

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona