Top 1200 Magical Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

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

All bookshelves are magical.

The autodecrement is not magical.

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

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.

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

Rituals are magical.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

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.

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

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 learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

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

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello—and it’s magical—we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone—and it’s magical—we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.

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.

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.

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.

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.

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

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

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.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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.

Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

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 admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

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.

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.