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You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie.… — Nicole Kidman
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. — Childe Hassam
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story… — Ambrose Bierce
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. — Bill Murray
Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book… — Marguerite Young
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a… — Iris Murdoch
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10… — Andreas Feininger
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that… — Karen Joy Fowler
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. — Vikas Swarup
This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. — George W. Bush
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose… — Northrop Frye
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… — Angela Carter
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.… — Tony Kushner
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury… — Oscar Wilde
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers. — Friedrich Schiller
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. — George Lakoff
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in… — Marvin Minsky
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid… — Ellen Glasgow
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the… — Alfred Kazin
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in… — Louis Sullivan
My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. — Laura Marling

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