What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them.… — Tennessee Williams 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
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When people have given up on happiness they call themselves 'realists.' — Marty Rubin Copy Share Image
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experienc — Nateman Copy Share Image
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh 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
“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
