Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation. — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake: You will be challenged at some point in time. We all are. That’s just life.” — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Real women get a call before bed, side chicks get a text, hoes get a smoke signal or pigeon sent over with… — Kiana J Wilson Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He recommended realism in defining one’s circle of competence and discipline to stay within the circle. He added that it helps to… — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
I'm interested in cinematic realism. I think there is a rich potential to bring to audiences people they haven't seen before, that… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
If you walk in the footprints of others, you wont make any of your own. — Gusso Montanna Copy Share Image
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility. — Mitchell Reiss Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I No Longer Trip I Just Wait My Turn Cause I've Actually Lived What You Trying To Learn. — Dul Copy Share Image
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
Weather your a judge , lawyer , cop , Teacher , or student , At the end of the day ,We are all the same — Shaquille Solomon Copy Share Image
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
If someone is stupid enough 2 walk away be smart enough 2 let them leave~ — DeAngelo Stokes Copy Share Image