Quotes About Reality

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.

The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.