Realism Quotes - Page 9

• Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Moving, Writing, Plot

  "7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel". www.writersdigest.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Zest

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• Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Idealism And Realism, Idealism

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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

  Zach Braff

  Development, Dynamics, Appearance

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• A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Friendship, Success, Powerful

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• Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

  Margaret Maron

  Time, Sorry, Thinking

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

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Fantasy, Spectators

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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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• Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Reality, Ignored

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Soul And Body, Void

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• A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

  Epictetus

  Reality, Doe

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

  Charles Kuralt

  Reality, People, Remember

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• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

  Teresa of Avila

  Reality, People, Giving

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• Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Reality, Details

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Mind

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• Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

  Lauren Hutton

  Real, Learning, Watches

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