Abstract Quote by Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the…

— Constantin Brancusi

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

— Giorgio Morandi

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Lucian Freud

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,

— Constantin Brancusi

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by…

— Constantin Brancusi

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

Abstraction and realism work best together.

— Ken Danby

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the…

— Giorgio Morandi

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means…

— Max Beckmann