Top 1200 Magical Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of let's make the world safe for democracy and we're going to topple every regime hasn't worked.

Motherhood is filled with magical little moments that bring you immense joy.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

As a director I would love to work with Marion Cotillard. She's so magical.

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

'Breaking Bad' was a magical, amazing experience. I'm honored to have been a part of it.

You just never know what is going to happen in WWE. That is why it is so magical.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.

Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.

We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

A safari is just a magical thing, the winelands in South Africa are beautiful.

The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.

I want more unpredictability. I want more realism. I think the fans would appreciate that, and that's what I've brought since day one.

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.