Abstraction Quote by Paul Klee

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

— Lucian Freud

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its…

— Fernand Leger

The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.

— John Cage

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

— Ben Okri

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Abstraction and realism work best together.

— Ken Danby

...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

When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same...

— Sergio Pinto

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our…

— Emile Chartier