"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."

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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Potential has a shelf life."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

Stephen King, American Author

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"The world will go on with or without humanity."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Reality, World, Humanity, Existence, Future

"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Reality, Truth, Perception, Spiritual

"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Reality, Truth, Ugliness, Emotion

"Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

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"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

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"On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright."

War

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."

Work

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."

Space

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

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"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

"Potential has a shelf life."

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

"The world will go on with or without humanity."

"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

"The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real."

"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."

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"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."

"One of my problems is to find the self."

"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."

"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

"On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright."

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."