The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
What is familiar tends to become a value.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
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.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.