Naturalistic Quotes

#1. Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.

Pamela Sargent

#2. The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Mark Pellegrino

#3. As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.

Josh Brolin

#4. There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Raymond Smullyan

#5. It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.

Rudolf Steiner

#6. Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.

Istvan Aranyosi

#7. If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

Piet Mondrian

#8. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

David S.Goyer

#9. I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.

George Ratliff

#10. I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

David Gordon Green

#11. Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

#12. I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made sense of in naturalistic terms. There is nothing at all contrary to naturalism in the idea of goal-directed systems.

Hilary Kornblith

#13. I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.

Max Von Essen

#14. I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

Jarvis Cocker

#15. Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted ...

Sigfried Giedion

#16. To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Albert Mohler

#17. Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

#18. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.

Joseph Roth

#19. All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

#20. Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Phillip E. Johnson

#21. It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Adam Brody

#22. I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.

Alice Lowe

#23. I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

Charles McCarry

#24. The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.

Lucy Griffiths

#25. Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

John Durant

#26. I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.

Dave McKean

#27. Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Douglas Sirk

#28. I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

Nicholas Royle

#29. Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Arthur Balfour

#30. If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

Lee Strobel

#31. There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

Hilary Kornblith

#32. Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

William A. Dembski

#33. It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Hans Hofmann

#34. The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist ... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Sid Grossman

#35. Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

Sigfried Giedion

#36. If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling.

G.E. Moore

#37. When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

Matt Reeves

#38. In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

Ralph Fiennes

#39. The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
ironically-fait h!

Ravi Zacharias

#40. If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

Henry Selick

#41. Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Terry Teachout

#42. The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

Pedro Almodovar

#43. Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Clement Greenberg

#44. From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

#45. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.

C.S. Lewis

#46. The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

Henry M. Morris

#47. For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Simon Beaufoy

#48. I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

Piet Mondrian

#49. When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Julie Taymor

#50. I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

Lily James

#51. I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.

David Oyelowo

#52. Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take on all of them in the first chapter of Knowledge and Its Place in Nature.)

Hilary Kornblith

#53. It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,

Antony Flew

#54. No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

Roy Wood Sellars

#55. Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principles of the universe and existence. It cannot even explain how its own claims can be reasonably believed.

Lewis N. Roe

#56. By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

Hilary Kornblith

#57. You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

David Naughton

#58. I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#59. Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#60. The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

Robert Benchley

#61. [Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Philip Johnson

#62. Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Ivan Reitman

#63. Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.

Albert Mohler

#64. The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

Julian Baggini

#65. I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

Howard Barker

#66. Players rested under that huge root among rotten woods and polished rocks on the Portal Cove beach. Ocean smell and dull sun made this break pleasant and refreshing.

J.M.K. Walkow

#67. Adelaide could not stop thinking about Blazing Night. How much she loved to play with her. How often her games and tournaments were the most enjoyable of all games in the Land of Games. Did she also like playing? When would they play again?

J.M.K. Walkow

#68. A vicious monster came from nowhere and kicked the car sideways

J.M.K. Walkow

#69. Jumping Rabbits played against Stinky Frogs and the winner took on Purple Rats immediately after. Blazing Night had constructed ...

J.M.K. Walkow

#70. All red and blue engines turned on. Yellow Car became a rocket and lifted off into space.

J.M.K. Walkow

#71. Good night," whispered the creature, grasping sand out of his way, but the players were in their beds far away from the desert. Only a little crimson and gold blaze gaped and breathed by the bush behind the neck of the dragon.

J.M.K. Walkow

#72. In a few years the firm effort of Blazing Night combined with her tedious works on the net was changing the world. She had designed and established the biggest ever, the multi-trillion charitable company: Panhandlers Inc.

J.M.K. Walkow

#73. I agree," said Blazing Night. "I'm working on the formula to get the money from the rich folk and do it fast. It's not easy, do you know how?

J.M.K. Walkow

#74. She knew only one hint left by Rob: Enigma. There had been a few genius mathematicians who invented much more than a computing-like device, they figured out one of the most important intelligence formulas. Rob had programmed it in the Mold language.

J.M.K. Walkow

#75. Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast.

J.M.K. Walkow

#76. Heat and dryness frightens me,
like skeletal shapes of war,
two of them look doomed
and challenge the peace blazing.

J.M.K. Walkow

#77. The eternal formula," Anna said. "A rule you can't fully understand, only its reflections can be documented and used.

J.M.K. Walkow

#78. She was an elf
She turned the lake to swamp
A dark and warm marsh
Her body sunk down
There unshaken lay

J.M.K. Walkow

#79. A refreshing west coast breeze carried a few clouds toward the main door of the car shop by the ocean's rocky beach on the island.

J.M.K. Walkow

#80. Understanding the eternal formula," Anna replied, "is the clue to win any game, and if you desire power you'll get it.

J.M.K. Walkow

#81. Rabbits lost their temper and one jumped on a Frog's head and smashed it against the grass.

J.M.K. Walkow

#82. The Rats had a fine goalie, Big Ann, a lady dragon who fearlessly stretched herself to the limit anytime she blocked the ball.

J.M.K. Walkow

#83. Cool it," cried Olga. "Working hard is what I do! Can't be perfect. Going to school not cheap and what are you doing here, a beauty nobody want. My first year was ok, only five or ten times knocked down, then later more and more. He says I'm no lady and gotta work harder for his dollar.

J.M.K. Walkow

#84. Happy Holidays

Is it not this day to smile?
Is it yet a time to give?
Is this friend as old as good?
Is my family so well?

Santa is just on his way,
Bringing gifts and love tonight,
Have a prosperous New Year!
And a happy day to last!

J.M.K. Walkow

#85. Blazing Night decided to travel to Europe to collect the information that was not on the net, some of it was hidden in old archives and cemeteries.

J.M.K. Walkow

#86. Jupiter was a chilly, dark and unfriendly tract of land in which no hope lingered, only despair. There she woke up in an oval dungeon.

J.M.K. Walkow

#87. The women were quiet. Blazing Knight checked her computing jobs on the net. A plastic surgeon was found. She could go any time and offer him a chance to repair her rotten parts, to reconstruct her again to a beautiful young female.

J.M.K. Walkow

#88. Fred prepared a board game he had created for the entire family to play. And they did.

J.M.K. Walkow

#89. take it easy clones

J.M.K. Walkow

#90. However, he either could growl without meaning, like a monster, or stay silent and keep his ideas to himself.

J.M.K. Walkow

#91. Her only weak part, they figured, was a fear of the desert, perhaps a fear of drying in the scorching sun, perhaps a lack of water to drink.

J.M.K. Walkow

#92. The hall door, beside which Rob worked that dreary noon, looked very old; its weathered brown paint was carved by long black lines left by leaks in the porch.

J.M.K. Walkow

#93. Thunder, showers hit Blue Earth.
Gape at her, bloody, broken parts,
can you track her clouds -
a clever farce of sky and sun

J.M.K. Walkow

#94. Rob left a note in the Manuscript, stating that once the formula was perceived and defined, it could be used in many ways, including winning millions of dollars from a bunch of billionaires.

J.M.K. Walkow

#95. Her knees were weak and if not for that marble pillar beside her shoulder she would faint and fall not far from the maze at the end of the main aisle of the church.

J.M.K. Walkow

#96. All parts of his body, the circuit and flesh, required rest. Not that anything had gone wrong.

J.M.K. Walkow

#97. Sunday was a day when players could not dispatch their doubles. Instead, clones went to the garage, where they studied educational ...

J.M.K. Walkow

#98. A Nonstandard Graph, Elements and Operations, a Card Game Dialect A combination of the Mold dialects and Sandwich graphs, backed by axiomatic math, creates a unique space of science and fantasy.

J.M.K. Walkow