Realism Quotes · Page 7

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

— Wallace Stevens

“Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.”

— Anton Pavlovich Chejov

When you live in lies, you can't tell what is the truth anymore.

— Francine Chiar

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

— Diana Silvers

It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

— Hal Needham

I always loved acting. I always loved realism. I loved the theatre, specifically small audience, real-sets stuff.

— Finn Cole

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

— Oscar Wilde

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making…

— Manoj Bajpayee

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in…

— Sara Paretsky

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in…

— Jamie Wyeth

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an…

— Marvin Minsky

“Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees…

— Kallistos Ware

“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle…

— Shannon L. Alder

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have…

— William James

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…

— Alice Hoffman

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need…

— Irvine Welsh

Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.…

— Karen Barad

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The…

— Julien Benda

“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not…

— Lev Shestov

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental…

— Robert Longo

“Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud; The Realist groans: "All life is mud ans slime!" Men lie and steal…

— Berton Braley

“There’s something comforting, almost soothing, about realism, and it’s nothing to do with shocks of recognition — well it wouldn’t, since shocks…

— Stanley Elkin

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the…

— Jerry Saltz

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Childe Hassam

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

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

— Ted Malloch

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

— Milton Friedman

How can u expect 2 get a Husband if you're not prepared 2 be a Wife? Things that make u go Hmmmmm~

— DeAngelo Stokes

In a chat with an Atheist one time he said Prove God exists I replied Prove the suns going to shine tomorrow

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Having a pessimistic outlook on life rather than an optimistic outlook is more realistic.

— Jenna Goldberg

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

— George Saunders

When people have given up on happiness they call themselves 'realists.'

— Marty Rubin

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.”

— Bernard Lonergan

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

— Nelson Shanks

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

— William Hague

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

— Tommy Wiseau

“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle