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.
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism. "
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.
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.
Realism. . . has no more to do with reality than anything else.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.