Realism Truth Quotes

#1. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

Joseph Delaney

#2. Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

Georges Bataille

#3. The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful - to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#4. Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

#5. There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Jean Renoir

#6. Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#7. Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Mason Cooley

#8. Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

#9. Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Auguste Rodin

#10. I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Tennessee Williams

#11. Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Alice Meynell

#13. When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

Katie Price

#14. Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?

George Lakoff

#15. If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have.

Pontius Joseph

#16. A careful fake is better than the truth. The truth lacks realism.

R.M. Koster

#17. The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

Robert Greene

#18. One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

Betsy Cornwell

#19. Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#20. Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require constant energy from our opponents to keep going. The truth has a habit of reasserting itself.

Julian Assange

#21. I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

Sam Cassell

#22. Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.

T.K. Coleman

#23. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

Criss Jami

#24. Know that you are loved, my dear ... Know that you can and will rise above all your fears. I now call you water walker. Water Walker? Yes, you walked through the waters of your fear, didn't you?

Ted Dekker

#25. Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

#26. Revolutions never go backwards.

Wendell Phillips

#27. You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

#28. For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

George Lakoff

#29. Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Ken Kesey

#30. I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

Isabella Rossellini

#31. The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#32. People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.

Salman Rushdie

#33. ...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.

Garth Ennis

#34. Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

Lionel Suggs

#35. Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare ... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

#36. My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

Nikki Jean

#37. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

Tennessee Williams

#38. We could scan each car for terrorists

and lovers she could lean into

my camouflage her head resting on woven trees.

When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform

into the forest of me
where they could never find her.

Jalina Mhyana

#39. Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

Tim Wise