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Realism Quotes

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

Tom Weston-Jones

Always Pieces Realism Sense Just

I studied realism when I was in art school.

Art School Realism Art School

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

Lynn Flewelling

Great People Writing Fantasy Realism

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Me Hollywood Always Pretty Realism

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.

Wife You Filmmaking Big Realism Fan

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

H. P. Lovecraft

Beautiful Think Realism Any

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

More Little Flexibility Realism Show

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.

Peter Greenaway

Believe You Cinema False Realism

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet

Painting Representation Realism Ideal

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Comedy Always Realism Must Almost

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

Government Cynicism Realism Distrust

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

Strong Try Realism Books Fantastic

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.

Reality Matter Realism Fidelity Any

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Lisa Papademetriou

Fantasy Kid Lord Rings Realism Like

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

Life Balance Life Is A Realism

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

Gustave Flaubert

Hate High Call Realism Been Made

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

Action Call Realism Working Certain

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I Am Birds Magic Talk Where Realism

I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

Energy Doing Smoke Never Up Realism

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

World Inevitable First Him Realism

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Habit Seeing True Things Realism Us

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Positive Aesthetic Realism Us Sense

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

Treat Think Fantasy Way Realism

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Marguerite Young

Philosophy Realism Who Some Them

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