Quotes About Reality

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

The map is more interesting than the territory.

Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.