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  • After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

    Witty   Years   Two  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

  • ... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

  • I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

    Giving   Vision   Lines  
  • The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

    Writing   Giving   Worry  
    Laurent Binet (2012). “HHhH: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan
  • Realism has always been called cynicism.

  • He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

    Painting   Kind   Realism  
    Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins
  • I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

    "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Book by Kazimir Malevich, November 1916.
  • The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

    Source: www.lucyreesart.com
  • There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

    Powerful   Lying   Color  
    Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult
  • I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

  • My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

    "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.
  • If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

    Reality   Vain   Made  
    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.79, Yale University Press
  • Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

    Art   Reality   Choices  
    Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”
  • Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

  • We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

  • Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.

    Source: collider.com
  • There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

  • I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

    Children   Real   War  
  • Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

    Strong   Lying   India  
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

    "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". The Review of Contemporary Fiction Interview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. Fall 1996.
  • Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

    Art   Reality   Details  
    Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
  • For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

    George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
  • Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

    Love   Dream   Fall  
  • When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

  • If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.

    Dream   Kings   Believe  
  • 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 actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

    Dark   Reality   Trying  
  • TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

    Real   Thinking   Might  
    Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc
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