Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.