Reality Quotes

10773 Reality quotes by 5151 unique authors

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to… — Virginia Woolf
The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully… — Harlan Ellison
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. — Starhawk
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a… — Martin Parr
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create… — David Hurn
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to… — Garry Winogrand
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as… — Ansel Adams
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. — Roland Barthes
... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his… — Robert Adams
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality… — Wynn Bullock
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling… — Wynn Bullock
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that… — James Russell Lowell
Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten. — Unknown Author
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not… — C.S. Lewis
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — Emilio Ambasz
Humankind can't stand too much reality. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. — Kim Fowley
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not. — Joseph Batten

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