Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

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

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.