Realism Quotes - Page 16

• An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Experience, Illusion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4106, Delphi Classics

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• Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

  Chauncey Depew

  Romance, Stories, Columbus

  Chauncey Depew “The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892”

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• Realism and art cannot live together.

  Jeanette Lee

  Art, Together

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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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• So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Mean, Reality, Connections

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.215, University of Chicago Press

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• However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Jobs, Reality

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• The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

  Gerd de Ley

  Dream, Reality, Frontiers

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• There is no realism without an element of idealism.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Elements, Idealism

  "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

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• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Cancer, Cutting, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sex, Real, War

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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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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• 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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• The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Struggle

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• I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

  Rian Johnson

  Style, Kind, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Important, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

  Armond White

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• We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're all striving for the same end result, which is to capture the patterns of conversations and how people interact in a very realistic way.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

  Ben Lerner

  Character, Psychology, Depth

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

  Timothy Keller

  Artist, Unique, Optimism

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• I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

  Robert Coover

  Guy

  "Robert Coover: a life in writing". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Realism has always been called cynicism.

  Gore Vidal

  Cynicism

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Sarcastic, Reading

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

  Robert Genn

  Style

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