When using conversation try not to use the words I think think is an indecision. Start it with either I know or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
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I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark 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
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith 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
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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I know a thing or two about rich girls hearts. Everyone treats them like a princess, but what they need is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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This poor wretch called man, he thinks he is a problem asking to be solved. He doesn't realize that he was meant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared… — Samuel Beckett 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
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It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J.… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
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Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
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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
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