Reality Quotes - Page 8

• This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Intellectual, Unseen

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• Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Dream, Real, Dark

  Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

  Mark Twain

  Crisis, Happens

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• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Depression, Glasses, Mental Illness

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Imitation, Wanted

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Time, Past, Perspective

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.229, Random House

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• Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Unity, Delusion, Multiplicity

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• Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

  Alain de Botton

  Abbreviations, Artistic, Force

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Heart, Sleep

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• In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

  Paul Klee

  Artist, Shows, Concerned

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Adjusting, Matter

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• An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Degrees, Assumption

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• The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

  Hans Hofmann

  Artist, May, Appearance

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• It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

  Lord David Cecil

  Doe, Alive, World

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• The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

  Arthur Danto

  Records, Magazines, Magazine Covers

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• There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

  Louis Aragon

  Dream, Mind, Chance

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• Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Oneness, Unity

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• To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Attention, Fancy

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.309

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• External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

  Jaron Lanier

  Nervous, Nervous System

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• Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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• Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Artist, Representation, Abstraction

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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