"Becoming too bogged down in creating "likenesses" in the sense of recording the likeness of "things" and calling it "realism" is actually quite abstract in that it is the creation if an illusion of three dimensional "things" on a flat surface, whereas; creating the essences of things; the concept within; emerging through color, form and composition is true realism because it expresses the truth of the soul.....even if that essence emerges through the appearance of recognizable "things"!"

 Bonny Leibowitz