Quotes About Reality

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Drawing is deception.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.