Quotes About Truth

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

I don't think 'Euphoria' can capture the entirety of the teen-in-high-school experience, but I think it is realistic. It's scary in that sense because I don't think we get to see a lot of depictions of high school this raw. I think that truth might scare people.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first step in coming out of denial. So we have to look into the darkness.

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

I'm a big believer in the complex realities of young people's lives.

The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.

The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.

I am definitely scary to a lot of people. I talk about realities that some folks just don't want to hear.

Perception is reality.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.