Realism Quotes

I only understand realism.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

People want to see realism in action now.

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.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

There are always loose ends in real life.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

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

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.