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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

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination. — Ralph Lauren

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. — Jerry Saltz

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. — Garth Nix

Realism and art cannot live together. — Jeanette Lee

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism — Federico Fellini

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. — George Lakoff

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. — Zack W. Van

Realism is a corruption of reality. — Wallace Stevens

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed. — Isaiah Berlin

We are not against the evil when our enemies are. — M.F. Moonzajer

The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange. — Sarah Addison Allen

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy

I do not think that any realism is beautiful. — H.P. Lovecraft

Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge. — Balroop Singh

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. — Elliott Abrams

An optimist without realism is an idiot. — Ben Tolosa

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

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

A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous! — William Dean Howells

The stars and planets don't disappear just because it's daytime. — Tami Egonu

Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy ... — James S.A. Corey

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda

Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season — Clarice Lispector

Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation — Aldous Huxley

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

And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye. — James Kelman

Realism that is limited to the end of one's nose is more dangerous than the most insane fantasticality, because it's blind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at - gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique. — Marcus Aurelius

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. — Crispin Glover

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. — Ben Shapiro

Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of. — T.K. Coleman

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. — Ruth Dugdall

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash. — David Heinemeier Hansson

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there. — Terry Pratchett

Don't let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it's hopeless. — A.J. Darkholme

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese

The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms. — Erin Entrada Kelly

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry. — Nelson Shanks

It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism. — Mary Robinette Kowal

Realism, I think, is fleeting. It's the romance that will live forever. — Graham Moore

Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks. — Simone Elkeles

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

Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got — Saira Viola

Realism can break a writer's heart. — Salman Rushdie

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. — Debbie Reynolds

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

Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. — Anton Chekhov

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary. — Ricky Gervais

No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person's true destiny. — Stephen Whitfield

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today. — Anton Zeilinger

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. — Mary E. Pearson

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore De Balzac

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing. — Lynn Flewelling

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. — Ayn Rand

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

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

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. — Childe Hassam

The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have. — Pontius Joseph

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. — Kayt C. Peck

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

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

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Maybe we should always assume the worst. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sex sells & the small print will kill you — Phillip McCarron

Idealism and realism meet in the actual. — Mary Parker Follett

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. — Paula Fox

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

Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. — Pablo Picasso

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination. — Matt Haig

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. — A.J. Darkholme

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. — George W. Bush

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

You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes. — Jamie Le Fay

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism. — Karl R. Popper

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. — E. E. Cummings

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid. — M.F. Moonzajer

Denying realism amounts to megalomania. — Karl R. Popper

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. — Laura Marling

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami