Top 1200 Magical Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

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.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture' necessarily. I found it really thrilling, both 'Terminator 1' and '2.' When you watch it it's such fine storytelling.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

'Grease Live!' was... it was a chore! It was interesting: one of, if not the most, magical television experience I've had in my career, where the people are concerned.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

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.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Well, I am a Malayali and I know the kind of expectations my fans have about my films. That, for me, is the biggest award. So I try and pick roles that I hope viewers will like. Malayalis want actors to be subtle in their acting and they enjoy realism.

Nepal is a magical country and one of the only places in the world where they are winning the fight against illegal poaching.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

I always loved acting. I always loved realism. I loved the theatre, specifically small audience, real-sets stuff.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.

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.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

I grew up at the time of Social Realism in Poland, when everyone was supposed to be 'writing for the workers.' But I soon became allergic to this. I have never written for audiences. I like it if they appreciate my music. But I would never change my style for them.

The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical transformative power in the beat.

I've played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That's what I want.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

This magical little thing called gravity does not exist - it's all electromagnetism, OK. No one knows what is in the center of this earth, no one!

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.