Realism Quotes - Page 18

• Realism can break a writer's heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Break

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• At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Reality, Understanding

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

  Terry Eagleton

  Optimistic, Usa, Negativity

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• When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

  Junot Diaz

  Struggle, Writing, Order

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• The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

  Rob Sheffield

  Garden, Community, Magic

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• 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.

  Michael C Dawson

  Rights, Black, Politician

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Energy

  "The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 (Design as a Principle in the Arts)". Book edited by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner, March 14, 2009.

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

  Larry Clark

  Cameras, Purpose, Purity

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• Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Skepticism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1465, Random House

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• TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, Might

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

  Peter Greenaway

  Italian, Imagination, Cinema

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• Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

  Hans Kmoch

  Mistake, Weakness, Records

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Expression, World

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• A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fire, Gone, Realist

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• Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Team, Artist, Almost Perfect

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• The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

  Childe Hassam

  People, Impressionism

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Daughter, Character, Narrative

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

  Ted Malloch

  Creativity, Community, Three

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, 2011.

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• ...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

  Milton Friedman

  Events, Investing, Assumption

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• We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

  Anton Zeilinger

  Giving Up, Believe, Ideas

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• A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

  Ellen Kushner

  Country, Baby, Heart

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• For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books

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• I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

  Marvin Minsky

  Intelligent, Years, Four

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• You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

  Nicole Kidman

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 05, 2017

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