The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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.
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Y...
Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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.
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
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.
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
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.
