Reimagining Reality Quotes

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.