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

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
Gertrude Stein

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller