Quotes by Realism The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn realism socialist telling-the-truth I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. Alton Tobey realism artistic exploration Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry! Armond White realism One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza realism deaf melancholy Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. Bette Davis realism hollywood reality The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. Childe Hassam impressionism realism people The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff. Chloe Sevigny gum realism stuff I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism. Daniel Radcliffe magical-realism realism kind If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it. David Foster Wallace realism seeing saws You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. Dylan Moran realism surreal achieve Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. Edgar Degas realism sentiments important I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. Edmund White realism avant-garde sincerity A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be. Epictetus realism doe reality 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. Fernand Leger realism whole way 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. Fred D'Aguiar realism speak way Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers. Friedrich Schiller realism safety danger In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. George Parsons Lathrop realism significance worthy The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality. Gerd de Ley realism dream reality This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. George W. Bush realism exit Realism has always been called cynicism. Gore Vidal realism cynicism 1234»