Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

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

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Everything is only a dream.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Reality is a fragile thing.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.