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“I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"”

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Author:Derek R. Audette

“Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.”

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Book:Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

“I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.”

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Author:Antoni Tapies

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

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”

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Author:Julia Marlowe

“My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.”

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Author:Nikki Jean

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“The only realism in art is of the imagination.”

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Book:Imaginations

Source: Imaginations

“The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.”

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Author:e. e. cummings