I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist -… — N.C. Thomas Copy Share Image
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
My mum used to tell me meeting the wrong friend makes you suffer for ten years & meeting the wrong man makes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People say the lord works in mysterious ways. As if it makes all the shitty things in life sweeter. Death is equally… — Georga Lass Copy Share Image
“Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you… — Shannon L. Alder 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
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible… — William James Copy Share Image
'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American… — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most… — Hans Kmoch Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of… — Anonymous 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
You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live;… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If your friend changes plans or ignores you after you've made plans with him for a while JUST to hangout with his… — Chad Copy Share Image
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
