Quotes About Reality

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.