Realism Quotes · Page 6

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

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

— Edgar Wright

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

— Diana Silvers

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

— Francine Chiar

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

It Seems Like The More You Find Out About Someone The Less You Know Them

— Kiana JWilson

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe

“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases…

— Dylan Moran

There was a time when villains were stylized as very fashionable with gelled hair, girls in arms and cigar in mouth but…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional…

— John Dewey

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

— Michael Maccoby

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been…

— E. J. Hughes

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it…

— Paul G. Tremblay

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that…

— Charlie Kaufman

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

— Karen Barad

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

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

— Berton Braley

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

— Robert Longo

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make…

— Nicole Kidman

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters…

— Tamora Pierce

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

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

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

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

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

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

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

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Jenna Goldberg

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton