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
I hope you understand my foolish love for you which made me wish to always stay longer, just a little longer at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
“The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth.… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was… — Hermann Hesse 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
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
