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“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”

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Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.”

Thinking Way Kind Mean Play Certain Levels Theater Narrative Mainstream Realism Realist

Author:Tony Kushner

“Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.”

Moments Humanity Music Is Shadow Wide Wounds Landscape Dirty Complexity Passages Immense Realism Nails Fleeting Chamber Rotten Gloom Radiance Impressionism Renoir Chiaroscuro

Book:Orphan Sky

Source: Orphan Sky

“Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic cocktail!”

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Author:Don Was

“The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.”

Faces Seeing Hatred Mirrors Reactions Rejection Realism Fury Romanticism Caliban

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.”

Danger Safety Realism Blindness

Book:Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German

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

Real Lines Realistic Imaginary Realism Bad Word Imaginary Lines

Author:Federico Fellini

“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.”

Purpose Happened My Friends Cameras Photograph Innocent Purity Realism

Author:Larry Clark

“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”

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Book:Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

“I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.”

Ifs Years Hard Four Effects Hundred Intelligent Comment Realism

Author:Marvin Minsky

“It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.”

Looks Littles Able Sides Knowing Disappointment Stores Realism Bright Side

Book:The Sheltered Life

Source: The Sheltered Life

“Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?”

Spirit Literature Strange Concerned Terrorist Liberation Realism Refusal Pseudo Calculating

Book:On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

Source: On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

“If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.”

Ifs Men Mind Long Term Existence Consciousness Fields Late Wide Quantity Realism Open Mind Covering

Author:Louis Sullivan

“That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.”

People Thinking Knows Art Bigs Fun Deals Pieces Paper Happenings Stores Opening Department Capitalist Realism Papers Furniture Big Deal Exhibitions Department Stores

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.”

Art Form Particular Happenings Capitalism Stores Capitalist Realism Socialist Furniture Slogans Dresden

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.”

Thinking Knows Kind Art Easy Painting Conscious Paint Photograph Realism Abstraction

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.”

Long Has Beens America Mass Long Time Entertainment Realism Documentaries

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.”

May Ideas Different Painting Liberalism Realism Veins

Book:Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe

Source: Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe

“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.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

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

Has Beens Made Hate Literature Decided I Hate Priests Realism

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.”

Way Want Giving Looks Kind Certain Lines Vision Fine Realism Abstraction Fine Lines

Author:Daniel Clowes

“For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.”

Values Winning Foundation Betrayal Labour Realism

Author:Douglas Alexander

“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.”

States Would Be Film Hours Building Eight Cinema Empires Realism Angle Subjective Warhol Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Crispin Glover

“I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.”

Thinking Way Fantasy Treats Realism Commonplace

Author:Grant Bowler

“I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.”

Believe Notion Don't Believe Cinema Conventions Realism

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.”

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Author:Chester Himes

“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.”

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Author:Emile Hirsch

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

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