Art must take reality by surprise.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures read more

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are read more

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in read more

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.