#imaginary

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#fiction #ideology #imaginary #philosophy #real

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#between #everything #i #i see #imaginary

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#call #clothes #dressing #even #freely

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#display #emotions #imaginary #instrumental #lets

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#compared #complete #each #else #god

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

#elsewhere #existence #imaginary #live #living

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#associate #crusade #fight #imaginary #international

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#aiming #always #filmmaking #imaginary #me

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#book #celebration #different #events #experience