Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Imagination creates reality.

Richard Wagner

• Reality
• Imagination

The psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Sigmund Freud

• Reality

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

• Famous
• Thinking

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

• Knowledge

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus.

Carlos Castaneda

• World

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

• Reality

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

Pablo Picasso

• Reality

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

• Art

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

• Thinking

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

• Art

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Paul Gauguin

• Art

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

• Art
• Artist

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Gustave Courbet

• Reality
• Art
• Artist

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

Atom Egoyan

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

The outstanding reality is the sacred; for only the sacred is in an absolute fashion, acts effectively, creates things and makes them endure.

Mircea Eliade

The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.

Ernst Mach

• Power
• Reality

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

• Death
• Meditation