Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

All experience is subjective.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

There are many levels of truth.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.