“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
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
“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
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
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both… — Arthur C. Danto Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom… — Shirin Neshat 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
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
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 craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Imagine a world, if you will, where crime does not exist. A startling proposition that seems outlandish, but our imaginations, of course,… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“On the whole it is certainly not necessary. Nothing can better defend us than nature itself, which has let certain flowers and… — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
“Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are… — Jan Narveson Copy Share Image
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day.… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has… — Sam J. Charlton Copy Share Image
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
