Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Picasso

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Pablo Picasso

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Pablo Picasso

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Pablo Picasso

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Pablo Picasso

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Pablo Picasso

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

Paul Singer

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Paul Johnson

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Paul Celan

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Oscar Wilde

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Oscar Wilde

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Oscar Wilde

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Madonna Ciccone

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Lyman Abbott

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

Lydia M. Child

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Lydia M. Child

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucretius

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Louis L'Amour

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Lorrie Moore

What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

Liv Ullmann

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

Liza Minnelli

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Liza Minnelli

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Michael Jackson

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Michael Crichton

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Michael Crichton

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Michael Crichton

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Michael Crichton

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.