“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I come to you not to make you love me, bur rather to make you realize that you are worth loving — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Girls only cheat when they feel unloved, guys cheat when they have the opportunity. — Kiana J Wilson Copy Share Image
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experienc — Nateman Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough… — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary… — Vikram Seth 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
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“The first thing I check once I’m inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What’s the temperature,… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick 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 lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of… — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“There’s something comforting, almost soothing, about realism, and it’s nothing to do with shocks of recognition — well it wouldn’t, since shocks… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
