Realism Quotes - Page 10

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

  Tricia Helfer

  Character, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

  Cate Marvin

  Argument, Poetic, Strikes

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Believe, Magic

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Squares

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Reality, Self, Cognition

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.50, UNC Press Books

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• The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Real, Independent, Community

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Faith, Thinking, Profound

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• Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Art, Work, Reality

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• No poetic phantasy
  but a biological reality,
  a fact: I am an entity
  like bird, insect, plant
  or sea-plant cell;
  I live; I am alive.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Reality, Cells

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Change, Technology, Reality

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• Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Reality, Firsts

  "Rule of Life", 1815.

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• The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Real, Mean, Fate

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.177, UNC Press Books

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• All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Truth, Real, Mean

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). “Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays”, p.306, Charles Sander Peirce

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• The magnificent cause of being,
  The imagination, the one reality
  In this imagined world.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Imagination, World

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• The real reality is always just around the corner.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Corners, Around The Corner

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• Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

  Mason Cooley

  Home, Reality, Comfort

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• In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

  Mason Cooley

  Winning, Reality, Stories

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Kings, Believe

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• All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Space, Might

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• "Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of Katie Jarvis, who plays the main character, Mia. She is not a professional actress and she provides the film with a sense of realism. To me, the film feels so complete and superior.

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

  Character, Play, Tanks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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, Figures, Concern

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• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Disappointment, Reality

  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

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• Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
  [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

  Ian Hacking

  Science, Reality, Principles

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• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Christianity, Christian Life, Nature And Life

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