Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proustwas a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 July 1871
CountryFrance
according art artist aspects reality represent selective view
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
reality needs easy
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
art reality quality
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
reality men support
The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals — and sometimes populations — not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter.
reading reality self
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
reality progress firsts
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
reality nurse littles
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
reality indulge-in folly
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.
memories reality paradoxical
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
giving-up sacrifice reality
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
real reality stations
Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
reality roles forgotten
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.
reality dust magic
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
believe mean reality
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.