#realism

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

#i #idealism #realism #tempered #thought

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

#amount #anything #because #change #complain

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#classic #complete #instead #make #museums

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

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks. ↗

— James Cañón

#humor #james-cañón #magic-realism #mariquita #tales-from-the-town-of-widows

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#creation #destruction #realism #love