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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
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We need realism to deal with reality.
Slick Rick
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Richard M. Nixon
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The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
Childe Hassam
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Jonathan Franzen
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
Samuel Beckett
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Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
Fernand Leger
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There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Jean Renoir
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
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Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
Samuel Beckett
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.
Pablo Picasso
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
Edgar Degas
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I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
Alton Tobey
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I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.
Michael Jackson
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Henri Bergson
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza
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Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby
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Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
John Wooden
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
Vincent Van Gogh
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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
Irvine Welsh
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Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.
Joshua L. Goldberg
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You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
Dylan Moran
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Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
Armond White
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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
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Paul Lynde
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
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I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.
Daniel Radcliffe
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
Zane Grey
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The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.
Gerd de Ley
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You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
Leon Blum
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
Gore Vidal
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Peter Greenaway
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My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
Nikki Jean
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If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
David Foster Wallace
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
Henry A. Kissinger
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
Mason Cooley
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
Edmund White