#realism

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

— Paul Lynde

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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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

— Dylan Moran

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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I only understand realism. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#only #realism #understand

We need realism to deal with reality. ↗

— Slick Rick

#need #realism #reality

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing