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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.


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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.


James Mangold
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.


Ray Bradbury
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.


Robert Mapplethorpe
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There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
Charlie Trotter
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
Chuck D
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Muhammad Iqbal
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.


Raoul Dufy
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.


Edmund Phelps
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.


Goldwin Smith
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
Michel Onfray
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami
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This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
Gregory Benford
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana Maharshi