The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in.… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.” — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in 40 years, there will be thousands of old women walking with tatoos? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I believe in more than a God could ever give me... — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser 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
A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image