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• You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, Erase

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

  Bette Davis

  Reality, Hollywood, Wanted

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• Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

  Claude McKay

  Reality, Air, Political

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

  Crispin Glover

  Cinema, Subjectivity, Film

  "Crispin Glover Speaks... Reluctantly". Interview with Matt Zoller Seitz, www.nypress.com. May 21, 2002.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Idealism, Immoral

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• Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Eye, Cameras

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Idealism, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

  Christopher Rice

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• People want to see realism in action now.

  Akshay Kumar

  People, Want, Action

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• 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

  Way, Whole, Objects

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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• Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kids, Literature, May

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• 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.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

  Ben Nicholson

  Art, Reality, Abandoned

  Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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• Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.

  Julia Marlowe

  Reality, Thinking, Views

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• Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Decision, Majority, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Mean, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Love, Dream, Fall

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• Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

  Daniel Fried

  Important, Pitfalls, Way

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Art, People, Wish

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• Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reason, Lost, Romanticism

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• It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

  Igor Babailov

  Painting, Debate, Realistic

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