Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a…

— Eudora Welty

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

“Art does what reality cannot.”

— Jayme K

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

“art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality”

— Donald Barthelme

“There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.”

— Stephen Hawking

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt