After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listen to God and follow your own heart, you will live an unfulfilled and frustrated life. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.' — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph. — Emile Gruppe Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist -… — N.C. Thomas Copy Share Image
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
