Quotes About Reality

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.