Eugene J. Martin famous quotes

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Reality #People #Way

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Real #Perception #Levels

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Lying #Air #Bird

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Journey #Potholes #Road Sign

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Art #Tree #Mind

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
-- Eugene J. Martin

#Art #Spring #Reality

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.