#realism

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. ↗

— André Breton

#reality #surrealism #dreams

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

— Bette Davis

#fought #hollywood #i #me #pretty

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#between #everything #i #i see #imaginary

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in such a way that it seems they are not making any progress; the walk down will require endurance. She looks up at the cluster of clouds which have been pencilled in neatly against the sky, and hopes it doesn’t rain. It occurs rapidly, a geisha brusquely folding shut her fan; the sun sets, and brilliant darkness replaces light. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#dreams #magic-realism #surrealism #dreams

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ask #dramatist #give #look #realism

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin