“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.” IfsTryingArtTwoRealityHouseLinesShapesResourcesHarderFewerRealismNailsBentUnlimitedBricksHammers Author:Ursula Vernon
“[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsTryingRealNextBeliefSoundMillionsFantasyPolicySeriousBuiltArgumentFoundationRewardsInvisibleFairyReal WorldRealismNext TimeExplainingAusterityBlightVigilante Author:Paul Krugman
“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. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.” LooksHardFantasyRealismDocumentariesHyper Author:Skrillex
“There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.” WorldChildrenRealReal WorldRealism Book:A Widow For One Year Source: A Widow For One Year
“Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.” WorldWellsLyingStrongNationsSunEconomicBecomingIndiaRealismDominanceEconomic Power Author:Mukesh Ambani
“The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.” StuffBubblesRealismGumBubble Gum Author:Chloe Sevigny
“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.” DoeRealityPhotographyObjectivesCertaintyRealismRepresentationConformObjectivityPatents Author:Pierre Bourdieu
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” WayRealPlayRealityMovingGuyActorsGivenLevelsRoomsEffectsHonestHigherSceneBuiltPerformancesVisualsRealismRobotsNuanceReal OnesVisual Effects Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.” ThinkingTryingCharacterChallengesRealismTruthfulness Author:Tricia Helfer
“Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindRealityLightEyeFallMemoriesWalksIssuesStreetsAwarenessInformationCommunicationDegreesVisualsFiftyRealismOur MemoriesRepresentingMicrocosm Author:Bill Viola
“... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.” RealityCoursesAbilityComputerCamerasFakeRealismLensesCamera LensesComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity and realism. The collaboration that you have had with all of these people plays an integral role in its final stage where editing and music are combine to enhance your work. This whole process is very rewarding and I wouldn't trade it for anything.” PeoplePlayWholeTogetherHumanityActorsProcessRolesStageTradeFinalsArtisticCollaborationRealismEditingVisionaries Author:Ruth E. Carter
“I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.” PeopleThinkingWayWantRealityRelateNot InterestedRealism Author:Lynne Tillman
“I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentHandsUsedMagicIndianDifferent WaysFascinatedRealismHand In HandMagic Realism Author:Joseph Boyden
“I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."” ThinkingNeedsWritingLittlesPsychologicalRealism Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“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.” ThinkingWantSelfCharacterTermAchieveSceneArisePsychologicalCombinationRealismFlawed Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource.” IdeasRealUseSeemsResourcesDistanceOneselfParksRealismStrict Author:Sergio Chejfec
“One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.” ShouldHas BeensCharacterStoriesSeemsActionParticularReaderSafeModelsTraditionForgivingCleanWesternBonesPsychologicalNarrativeLoudConventionsRealismBugsForgive MeTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?” KnowsRealityPastGuyAsksTalkingWatchesFantasyStrangeWake UpPatternsStrangerPopsAsk MeRealismOur PastVersusMeltingIllogicalUnderworldKaleidoscopeTartsFantasy And Reality Author:Karen Russell
“Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.” WaySpeakRealismDeclarationMagical Realism Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“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.” ThinkingMayHandsLastsUsedMaterialsPromiseAnxietyToolsReachingRealismLast Words Author:Roy Kesey
“Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.” PeopleStoriesProblemFormRealismToss Author:Lucy Corin
“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksRealCharacterActionFilmGoalMistakeLordAudienceEnvironmentSeeingDesignComputerMy FavoriteRingsRealismFavorites ThingsKung FuAction FilmsPandasKung Fu PandaCharacter Design Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.” KnowsWritingKindPeriodsReactionsObsessedSovietComposerRealismModernismPersonal ThingsExpressionism Author:Mahan Esfahani
“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.” IfsFeelsWritingBelieveI BelieveFictionNotionRealism Author:Christopher Rice
“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.” ArtTermFindingsArt IsUglyRealismThesisUgly Truth Author:Nikki Jean
“Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!” ArtYeahAbstractConspiracyRealismSocialistBourgeoisProletariatAbstract Art Author:Carl Andre
“The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.” IfsWorldGivingWellsKindKidsFilmSocialMagicWoodsCorePursueRealmsRealismHuntsSocial WorkNew ZealandMagic Realism Author:Sam Neill
“Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.” UsedLiteratureMagicSouthFamiliarPhrasesBellsRealismAmerican LiteratureMagic Realism Author:Sam Neill
“For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.” MenWorldKindRealStoriesHappensAnimalReal WorldRealismFablesRetributionZoos Author:James Patterson
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.” IfsKindFactsStoriesEasyVoiceCommonMistakeImpossibleMinutesReaderPicksIdeologyLegacyProseShort StoryDisplayRealismTediousPragmatismCommon DenominatorPedestriansLess Is MoreVernacularBlendersTranscription Author:Cynthia Ozick
“People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.” PeopleWantDoneActionActorsEnjoyComputerPerformingRealism Author:Akshay Kumar
“"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of Katie Jarvis, who plays the main character, Mia. She is not a professional actress and she provides the film with a sense of realism. To me, the film feels so complete and superior.” FeelsPlayCharacterFilmEnergyShotsMy FavoriteFishesActressesSuperiorsRealismTanksKatieMain CharactersMiaAndreaFish Tanks Author:Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
“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.” IfsWritingWould BePoliticalDifficultFictionMoralPerspectiveIronicRealismCompassAbsentSuggesting Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“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.” TryingDoeSituationDrawsAdvantageAimFantasticRevolutionaryRealisticPermitRealismMaximum Author:Leon Trotsky
“It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.” IfsThinkingReasonFactsPainStrongAcceptingMoralHavensCreaturesDeserveNo ReasonHelpfulSubmitRealism Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.” MayTodaySpeakMoralDecidedTrendsRealismRealistNaturalist Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.” KindRealismMagical Realism Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“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.” MindLooksProblemBodyMoralArgumentConnectionsPhilosophicalCriticizeRealismMind BodySome Philosophical Author:Elliott Sober
“Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.” SometimesFactsProblemGoalFindingsRegardPhilosopherDoctrineAssumptionInterpretationAccurateRealismMultiplePropositionsInference Author:Elliott Sober
“The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.” WayLooksSocialClassCenturyRevolutionAppreciateRealismWorking ClassEmergingNineteenth CenturyIndustrial Revolution Author:Patricia Piccinini
“People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.” PeopleMeanFantasyWrittenMagicUniversityRealismMagic Realism Author:Terry Pratchett
“I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLooksSaidDoneHappensTermSituationSpeechExpectationsParksGrantsRealisticLayersRealismPresidencyStumps Author:Barack Obama
“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.” ThinkingWorldIdeasPresidentDemocracyPolicyTrumpFitSafeLabelsRegimesForeign PolicyRealismMccain Author:Rand Paul
“Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.” PersonsBlackRightsPoliticianTraditionalCivil RightsCodeTiedRealismBlack PersonBlack Power Author:Michael C Dawson
“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.” WayImportantProblemEasyAchievePolicyPlentyRoughRealisticForeign PolicyRealismPitfallsNothing Is Easy Author:Daniel Fried