Realism Quotes

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

We need realism to deal with reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

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

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

I only understand realism.

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

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

Realism has always been called cynicism.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

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

Because Christianity is a religion of death,
it could be treated with the utmost realism,
and it could have its orgies,
just likethe old religion of nature and life.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.