It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I prefer to have my beliefs to offer more than a… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more,… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of… — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you… — Don Was Copy Share Image
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe 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
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
People promote being a 90s kid when in reality we're labeled as The Lazy Youth, Lost Generation & we're looked down upon… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
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
You may mess up 9 times out of 10,but you will mesmerise everyone with just one single brilliant play.The people that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In all these years of doing theatre, I've been a very physical performer - physically demonstrative, yet sticking to the realism of… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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