Quotes on reality
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
Perenyi, Eleanor
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Lennon, John
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Einstein, Albert
Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.
Miller, Connie
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.
Mumford, Lewis
Everything you can imagine is real.
Picasso, Pablo
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
Allen, Woody
Attitude is more important than reality.
Agather, Elaine
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
Douglas, Norman
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Wagner, Jane
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
Warhol, Andy
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
Alauda, Astrid
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
Escher, M.C.
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
Abbey, Edward
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Allen, Woody
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Allen, Woody