Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson

Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad