Realism Quotes

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

Realism and art cannot live together.

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.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

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

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

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.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

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 singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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, is the new realism.