Realism Quotes

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

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

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

No ghosts need

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

We are the universe.

Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.

But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

True hope has no room for delusion.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

Dreams are memories we’ve lost to sleep.

Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream just yet. Because the sensation of your kisses keep me from sleep. I’m in love, God help me, I’m in love.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.