Best Realism Qoutes
351 Realism quotes by 268 unique authors
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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
— Anton Chekhov
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... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.…
— Terry Eagleton
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes…
— Anais Nin
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We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we…
— Julian Barnes
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
— Haruki Murakami
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The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds…
— Marina Warner
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Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
— David Foster Wallace
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Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams -…
— Lin Yutang
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
— Belva Davis
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I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding…
— Wynn Bullock
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Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you…
— Jonathan Franzen
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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist…
— Arne Glimcher
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I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the…
— Carmen Ejogo
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their…
— Faran Tahir
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Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like…
— Mekhi Phifer
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The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism.…
— Louis Dudek
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To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling…
— Daryl Hall
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always…
— Russell Smith
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I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from…
— Hassan Rouhani
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I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
— Isabella Rossellini
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Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
— Mo Ibrahim
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America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed…
— Charles M. Blow
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think…
— Martin Seligman
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals…
— Charles Platt
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