Abandoned Quote by Ben Nicholson

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of…

— Antoni Tapies

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

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

— Pablo Picasso

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

— Jean Rousset

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

— Edward B. Burger