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
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting,… — Mary Grandpre Copy Share Image
We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality.… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Realism is detachment… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked… — Michael Stuhlbarg 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
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life I see pain, mistakes & heartache. When I look in the mirror I see strength,… — DeAngelo Stokes Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
Im not Superman. So I cant say anything big like Ill protect everyone on Earth. Im not a modest guy who will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
