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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay
Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive… — Bertrand Russell
Realism is a corruption of reality. — Wallace Stevens
We need realism to deal with reality. — Slick Rick
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort —… — George Saunders
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… — Bill Gates
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that… — Barbara Hepworth
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and… — Susan Sontag
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an… — Ellen Kushner
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ... — Jean Houston
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. — Asger Jorn
I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination. — Ralph Lauren
Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is. — Zane Grey
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has… — Childe Hassam
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique — Edmund White
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men… — Ronald Fisher
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. — George Parsons Lathrop
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash. — David Heinemeier Hansson
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism,… — Daniel Pinkwater

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