Quotes About Reality

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It's what I am. And when I'm clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.