Realism Quotes - Page 13

• Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Art, Work, Reality

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Bombs

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• 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!"

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Reality, People

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• When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 11, 2015

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• I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Furniture, Form

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

  Louis Sullivan

  Men, Long, Mind

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• Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

  Alfred Kazin

  Literature, Pseudo, Spirit

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Disappointment, Knowing, Looks

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Safety, Danger, Blindness

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.114, 谷月社

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• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mirrors, Rejection, Hatred

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  Ella Leya

  Dirty, Humanity, Shadow

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Religious, Men, Growth

  "The Need of Atheism". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

  Tony Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  "Tony Kushner: The full interview". Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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

  George W. Bush

  Exit

  "Source: Iraq panel to advise gradual U.S. pullback". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2006.

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

  David Riesman

  America, Long, Documentaries

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.220, Transaction Publishers

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• It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

  Eva Hoffman

  Ideas, Different, Veins

  Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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• I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Fantasy, Spectators

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• Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

  Shirin Neshat

  Communication, Artist, Magic Realism

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• Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

  Karen Barad

  Running, Appreciation, Doe

  "'Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers'". "Meeting Utrecht Halfway", quod.lib.umich.edu. June 6, 2009.

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• 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.

  Nick Park

  Animal, League, Rays

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

  Tamora Pierce

  Real, Character, Needs

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• 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.

  Tea Obreht

  Attachment, The End Of The Day, Make Or Break

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

  Laura Marling

  Song, Optimistic, Not Pretty

  "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.

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