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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. -- Serge Daney
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. -- Thom Mayne
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. -- Laurie Anderson
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality. -- Rachel Cusk
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. -- Richard Rohr
Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster. -- Ronald Kessler
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -- Hermann Hesse
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. -- Robert Collier
We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things. -- Keri Hilson
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. -- Yoko Ono
You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more. -- Montel Williams
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them. -- Christopher Alexander
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. -- David Eagleman
You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh. -- Eric Stoltz
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. -- Terry Gross
Reality confounds image. -- Peter Heather
Reality is blocked by form and image. -- Rumi
By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world. -- Willis Harman
Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover. -- Eric Butterworth
No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality. -- Barbara Goldsmith
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open. -- Lev Manovich
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. -- Thomas Ruff
It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality. -- Taylor Swift
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation. -- Andy Grundberg
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. -- James A. Baldwin
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. -- Shana Alexander
... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. -- Deepak Chopra
Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment. -- Pedro Meyer
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. -- Ruth Bernhard
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be. -- Yasmin Mogahed
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived. -- Peter C Bunnell
I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks]. -- Young Thug
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. -- Herbert Bayer
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real. -- Paul Virilio
You chose me as your partner because i am the virtual image created in your brain!In reality my voice doesn't suit your image & hence we split. -- Gopichand Lagadapati
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster. -- Jodi Picoult
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him. -- Ravi Zacharias
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be. -- Sidney Poitier
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing. -- John Cleese
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality. -- Ernst Gombrich
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend -- Jean Helion

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