#reality

الفن يجب أن يفاجئ الواقع. ↗

— فرانسواز ساجان

#reality #art

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#reality #art

Truth must be found in reality, not systems. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#truth #art

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life-philosophy #poetry #prose #reality #writing

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#defeat-and-attitude #laser #reality #virtual-reality #attitude

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#beauty

Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something. ↗

— Tara Kelly

#reality #beauty

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#reality-sucks #beauty

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #reality #beauty

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag. ↗

— Chet Raymo

#reality #simile #water #beauty