Realism Quotes - Page 3

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I only understand realism.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

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.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

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.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Don't look back, you can never look back

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

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.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

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.

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

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.