Visible Reality Quotes

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.