You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.
Slavoj Zizek

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Wislawa Szymborska

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton

I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
Jerry Lawler

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Karl Popper

A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco