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I'm not big into images. I'm into reality. -- Paul Tagliabue
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. -- Albert Bandura
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. -- Hillary Clinton
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. -- Serge Daney
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. -- Shana Alexander
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. -- Thom Mayne
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
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
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities. -- Ruth Ozeki
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
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
There are images I need to complete my own reality. -- Jim Morrison
We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality. -- Lauryn Hill
There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. -- Emilio Ambasz
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. -- Sonia Sanchez
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. -- Thomas Ruff
The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation. -- Andy Grundberg
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. -- William Wordsworth
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. -- Bede Griffiths
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. -- Susan Sontag
The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning. -- Carl Jung
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire -- Susan Sontag
The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality. -- Alister E. McGrath
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. -- Bertolt Brecht
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality. -- Martin Parr
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time. -- John Berger
Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality. -- Thomas Ruff

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