Best Naturalistic Quotes

38 Naturalistic quotes by 32 unique authors

It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage… — Rudolf Steiner
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear… — Sigfried Giedion
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion
Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way… — Ivan Reitman
All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so. — Phillip E. Johnson
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation.… — Julian Baggini
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe… — Noam Chomsky
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. — Simon Beaufoy
Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . .… — William James
''I believe in life there is a certain level of acceptance, there is an acceptance that there is a naturalistic order in order in place.''… — Jeremy Limn

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