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Quotes About Reality

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
~ Albert Camus
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
~ Bob Dylan
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
~ Caio Fonseca
There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second
~ Charles Tomlinson
I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
~ Douglas Coupland
Making reality real is art's responsibility.
~ Eudora Welty
We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
~ John Ruskin
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
~ John Updike
I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.
~ Madonna Ciccone
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
~ Mason Cooley
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
~ Nelly
The media sells it and you live the role.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
~ Samuel Beckett
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
~ Theodor Adorno
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
~ Wes Nisker
My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.
~ Nikki Rowe
Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.
~ Unknown
I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
~ Unknown
Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.
~ Marty Rubin
Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.
~ Marty Rubin