Art Quote by Alfredo Jaar

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

— Michal Rovner

My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being…

— Mario Sorrenti

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it…

— Ronee Blakley

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

— Yann Martel

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

— Julia Glass

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what…

— Gerhard Richter

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of…

— Storm Thorgerson

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

— Valerie June