Realism Quotes

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

I don't want realism. I want magic!

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

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

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

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

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

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.

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.