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Tag Name "Realism" (202)

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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Henri Bergson
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
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Realism and art cannot live together.
Jeanette Lee
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Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.
Roy Kesey
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
Salman Rushdie
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Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.
Nelson Shanks
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Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
George Saunders
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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
Sherwood Anderson
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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.
Julia Marlowe
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.
Andreas Feininger
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Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.
Alex Grey
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Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Walter J. Phillips
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
Robert Edmond Jones
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
George Parsons Lathrop
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
Gore Vidal
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Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.
Daniel Fried
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Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
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