Realism Quotes
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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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.
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When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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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.
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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.
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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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.
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I only understand realism.
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People want to see realism in action now.
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The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
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We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
