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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.
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 twist.
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.
Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.
In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.
Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)
The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.
When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.
Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.