现实
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
I don’t want to imitate reality; I want to create it.
Writing is an act of rebellion against reality.
The novel is the most complete, most complex, and most profound expression of human reality that exists.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
"The problem with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
"A painting should be a window to another reality."
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
Reality is not what we see, but what we discover through art.
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."
"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."
The mystery of reality is what keeps me painting.