Marcel Proust Quotes

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

Marcel Proust

• Reality
• Photograph
• Reproduction
• Lacks

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• Thought makes reality.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Makes

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Look

• People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Reality
  • Always

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Reality

• In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Reality
  • Car
  • End

• If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Japanese

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

  

  Kai Bird
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Peace

• If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Drunk

• I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Live
  • Reality

• We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • God

• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Reality
  • Chaos

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it.

  

  Jason White Green Day
  • Chance
  • Tried
  • Catch

• A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Reality
  • Photograph
  • Reproduction