Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror… — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
To that woman, a scar was like falling into deep water. The onlookers who dont know the depth of that scar just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
“It was realism that told Kelly he couldn’t fix all the problems of the world; it was idealism that told him his… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced. From the… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Science seems to be at war with itself… Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You don't realize what you had until it's gone , but there is a reason for every goodbye. God just chose a… — Maria Micah Rosales Copy Share Image
The 'West Wing' writers room would not have come up with the idea of running a presidential campaign in which an African-American… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
