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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

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

Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep. — Lisa Cach

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

Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas. — Dacha Avelin

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. — Magdalena Abakanowicz

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times. — Maya Angelou

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. — Langdon Brown Gilkey

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. — Charles Burnett

Art's role (like philosophy's) is not to criticize reality but to change it; and little change can be effected if art remains a cloistered domain. — Richard Shusterman

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

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

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley

Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV. — Brian Spellman

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

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. — Friedrich Schiller

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. — Charlotte Eriksson

For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is - art. — Sigmund Freud

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue. — Deborah Davis

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. — Nelly Mazloum

Art is the link between appearance and reality. — Evelyn Underhill

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford

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

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez

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

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one. — Eugenio Montale

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. — Marcel Duchamp

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality — Jean Rousset

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

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death. — Tom Stoppard

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key. — Mirella Freni

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. — Billy Connolly

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian

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

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects. — Hans Rookmaaker

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret. — John Assaraf

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter

The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality. — Giff Constable

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

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art. — Clive Bell

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. — Publilius Syrus

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. — Asger Jorn

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. — Mike Norton

Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated. — Bam Zakariya

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. — Tom Hodgkinson

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain