#reality

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case. ↗

— Chris Ware

#case #clamor #comics #everybody #how

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#dangerous #delusions #most #only #own

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#fiction #obscures #reality #reveals #truths

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#emotions #reality #anger

The space within becomes the reality of the building. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#building #reality #space #within

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#like #reality #surprises

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#good-society #unreality #art

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? ↗

— William Gibson

#performance-art #virtual-reality #art

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#artist #growing-up #life #life-and-living #reality