#realism

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

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

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

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

The spirit of life was in them: death can do nothing against the dawning light; death is but a cardboard mask soon consumed by fire. Behind the black flag - which is nothing other than an anti-flag - the garden of all possibilities is hidden, opening out infinitely to the sea. ↗

— Bernard Roger

#life #possibilities #surrealism #death

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#pictures #present #surrealism

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

— Vincente Minnelli

#curious #father #pirate #surrealism #way

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

#comment #effect #four #hard #hundred

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

— Dylan Moran

#elastic #jokes #making #realism #surreal

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

— Jackson Pollock

#drove #hard #his #i #into