Art Reality Quotes

#1. PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

George Maciunas

#2. In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

Lafcadio Hearn

#3. The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Aristotle.

#4. Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

Eric S. Rabkin

#6. Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Jean Rousset

#7. Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

Robert Breault

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

Wassily Kandinsky

#9. We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#10. Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Henri Bergson

#11. 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

#12. In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can't get a real experience from the world.

Richard Tuttle

#13. For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.

Audrey Flack

#14. The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality.

Giff Constable

#15. Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Clive Bell

#16. It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

Ashley Bell

#17. Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show ... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Richard Phillips

#18. If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Henri Bergson

#19. If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Gerhard Richter

#20. How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

#21. I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

Derek R. Audette

#22. The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.

Christina Strigas

#23. A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

#24. Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.

Bam Zakariya

#25. One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

Henry Fox Talbot

#26. People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

#27. The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Alberto Giacometti

#28. Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

Amedeo Modigliani

#29. So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films "reality".

Haruki Murakami

#30. The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things ...

George Santayana

#31. I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

Adam Carolla

#32. For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

#33. Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Edgar Alwin Payne

#34. Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

#35. Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality.

Stefan Zweig

#36. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

James Baldwin

#37. You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Woody Allen

#38. Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Marcel Duchamp

#39. To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Asger Jorn

#40. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Robert M. Pirsig

#41. Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Joanna Scott

#42. But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality.

Albert Camus

#43. There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

Hans Hofmann

#44. Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV.

Brian Spellman

#45. So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Simon McBurney

#46. Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

John Gardner

#47. Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive ...

Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

Roger Ballen

#48. In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Eli Siegel

#49. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

John Ruskin

#50. Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

Red Smith

#51. The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

Gavin Hood

#52. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

Piet Mondrian

#53. A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist's task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist's version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice.

Kate Kearns

#54. Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

#55. What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

Gabriel Orozco

#56. Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Oscar Wilde

#57. Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Friedrich Schiller

#58. As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

Yareli Arizmendi

#59. For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

Kano Jigoro

#60. I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.

Ayana Mathis

#61. When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Avril Lavigne

#62. In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

Richard M. Weaver

#63. The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Joshua Reynolds

#64. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Norman Foster

#65. Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Ben Nicholson

#66. Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

Gerhard Richter

#67. Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.

John Walford

#68. Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

Laura Pritchett

#69. What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Rene Magritte

#70. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

#71. Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding ... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

Emily Carr

#72. The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

Eric Drooker

#73. The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

Edward Albee

#74. Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Julian Barnes

#75. The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

Camille Paglia

#76. What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Miuccia Prada

#77. One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Peter Schmidt

#78. A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival.

Steve Stockman

#79. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#80. Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Chuck D

#81. Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us to apprehend things, but at the same time restricts and partly precludes our apprehension of reality.

Gerhard Richter

#82. The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about "it" is in your mind and your
to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST

Gregory Hill

#83. Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

Marty Rubin

#84. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Egon Friedell

#85. There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

#86. Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Henry Moore

#87. In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Andreas Gursky

#88. What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#89. The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment.

Anthony Marais

#90. Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Germaine Greer

#91. Art is the link between appearance and reality.

Evelyn Underhill

#92. He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Jorge Luis Borges

#93. Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Aharon Appelfeld

#94. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Eric Hoffer

#95. Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now.
Paul Turnbull

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#96. Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

Neil Harbisson

#97. Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Frederick Sommer

#98. I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Paul Stanley

#99. Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

Pablo Picasso

#100. Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.

Vladimir Nabokov