#realism

'A fine story', said Asterinov .... 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I never know where the Party stands on issues of the supernatural...' ..... 'It was, - understand, I do not know for sure, I heard this at second or third hand - it was the walk through the forest. Apparently I was just too convincing in the representation of a poor man's yearning for money...' ↗

— Adam Roberts

#socialist-realism #money

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#literature #magic #modernism #myth #surrealism

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#different #doing #felt #form #i

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#realism #realism-in-fiction #age

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#left #like #out #people #realism

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. ↗

— George Oppen

#away #carefully #etc #left #masses

Love is the jelly to sunshine’s peanut butter. And if I tell you that I’m in sandwich with you, I’m not just saying it to get in your Ziploc bag. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #surrealism #age

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#artists #creativity #surrealism #art

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth. ↗

— Debbie Reynolds

#clothes #filth #i #in my opinion #like