quotes about Realism
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
-- Alton Tobey -
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
-- Bette Davis -
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
-- Childe Hassam -
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Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite
-- Crispin GloverSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
-- Dylan Moran -
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
-- Edmund WhiteSource : "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". The Review of Contemporary Fiction Interview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. Fall 1996.
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Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
-- Fernand LegerSource : Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”
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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 LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
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In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
-- George Parsons Lathrop -
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
-- Henri Bergson -
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
-- Hob Broun -
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
-- Irvine Welsh -
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
-- Jackson Pollock -
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
-- Jacques AudiardSource : "Discovering how to navigate the world", www.smh.com.au. March 28, 2013.
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There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
-- Jean Renoir -
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.
-- Jean-Pierre Melville -
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
-- John Wooden -
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.
-- Joshua L. Goldberg -
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
-- Laura Marling -
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 -
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I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
-- Martin Gore -
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.
-- Michael Jackson -
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
-- Paul Lynde -
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
-- Philip Gulley -
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
-- Samuel Beckett -
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We need realism to deal with reality.
-- Slick RickSource : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
-- Tommy Wiseau -
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
-- Vikas Swarup -
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-- William Hague -
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You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!
-- William Morris HuntSource : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
-- Zane Grey -
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'AguiarSource : Source: therumpus.net
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The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.
-- Gerd de Ley -
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My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
-- Nikki Jean -
Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
-- Armond White -
I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.
-- Robert CooverSource : "Robert Coover: a life in writing". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.
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