“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
Pablo Picasso
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”
Jean Cocteau
“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.”
Ambrose Bierce
“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.”
Seamus Heaney
