Realism Quotes

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

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.

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.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

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.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

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.

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.

We need realism to deal with reality.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

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.

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.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

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.

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.

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.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

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.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.