American culture Quote by Shirin Neshat

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

— Fred D'Aguiar

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way…

— Joseph Boyden

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

— Walter J. Phillips

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite…

— Albert Camus

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure…

— Roger Scruton