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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.
There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.
The 'Mahabharata' is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'
Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.
In all these years of doing theatre, I've been a very physical performer - physically demonstrative, yet sticking to the realism of the piece.
I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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.
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.
