Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. Bette Davis American Actress More Bette Davis Quotes 0
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Federico Fellini Italian Director More Federico Fellini Quotes 0
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. George Oppen American Poet More George Oppen Quotes 0
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. Sara Paretsky American Author More Sara Paretsky Quotes 0
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. Angela Carter English Novelist More Angela Carter Quotes 0
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. Tori Amos American Musician More Tori Amos Quotes 0
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism. Kathryn Bigelow American Director More Kathryn Bigelow Quotes 0
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. Daniel Clowes American Author More Daniel Clowes Quotes 0
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Jean Cocteau French Director More Jean Cocteau Quotes 0
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. Morris Raphael Cohen Russian Philosopher More Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes 0
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. Gustave Courbet French Artist More Gustave Courbet Quotes 0
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. Ronald Fisher English Mathematician More Ronald Fisher Quotes 0
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. Crispin Glover American Actor More Crispin Glover Quotes 0
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Seamus Heaney Irish Poet More Seamus Heaney Quotes 0
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. Jim Henson American Entertainer More Jim Henson Quotes 0
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth English Artist More Barbara Hepworth Quotes 0
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. Alice Hoffman American Author More Alice Hoffman Quotes 0
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley English Novelist More Aldous Huxley Quotes 0
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. Paul Lynde American Comedian More Paul Lynde Quotes 0
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. Oliver North American Soldier More Oliver North Quotes 0
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation. Mitch McConnell American Politician More Mitch McConnell Quotes 0
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Claude McKay Jamaican Writer More Claude McKay Quotes 0