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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.
The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel.
I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.
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.
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.
Horror itself is such a magical genre.
Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.
Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?
Mary Poppins is magical and fun.
I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
I love to live in a magical place.
I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Magical music never leaves the memory.
A pub can be a magical place.
The theater is magical and addictive.
Soccer is a magical game.
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.
I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.
I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.
2010 was a magical year and was unforgettable.
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.
That'?s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.
I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
Teens are strange and magical.
Being a mother is magical.
We are powerful magical beings.
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
Film is a truly magical medium.
I've had an absolutely magical run.
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Liberty and equality are magical words.
