Admirable Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

— Paul Klee

...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

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

— Constantin Brancusi

The material world may be nothing but illusion...

— Anodea Judith

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

— Niels Bohr

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

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for…

— Jane Campion

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects…

— John Locke

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

The true is not material reality only.

— Jules Breton