Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this … - Ben Nicholson - Quotesmemo.com

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Ben Nicholson

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

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The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural. . . Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

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Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

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