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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
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.
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.
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.
The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.