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351 Realism quotes by 268 unique authors
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But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are…
— Jim Henson
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
— Aldous Huxley
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the…
— Joe Klein
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
— Paul Lynde
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
— Dylan Moran
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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
— Peter O'Toole
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
— Pablo Picasso
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
— Pablo Picasso
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
— Jackson Pollock
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
— Dawn Powell
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I only understand realism.
— Manuel Puig
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
— Manuel Puig
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems,…
— Salman Rushdie
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John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
— Jerry Saltz
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon…
— Jerry Saltz
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The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when…
— Rob Sheffield
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
— Jack Welch
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
— Virginia Woolf
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.
— William Carlos Williams
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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