Realism Quotes · Page 11

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

— David Foster Wallace

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

— Jesse Armstrong

“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.”

— A.J. Darkholme

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

— Skrillex

“When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.”

— Michael Hogan

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

— Mason Cooley

A real man would buy things for his baby,not for a prostitute on his dick.

— Anonymous

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

— Edmund White

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

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

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

— Dylan Moran

“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Michael Maccoby

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

— John Dewey

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

— Anonymous

“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

The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this…

— Bertrand Russell

“For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical…

— David Foster Wallace

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

— Anton Chekhov

It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in…

— Walter Mosley

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

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of…

— Douglas Alexander

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

— Richard M. Nixon

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Alton Tobey

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

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

— Laurent Binet

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

— Nateman

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

— Varun Tej

“Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when…

— Keary Taylor

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

— Anton Zeilinger

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

— Mark Twain

Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for…

— Joe Lycett

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world

— Wallace Stevens

If you walk in the footprints of others, you wont make any of your own.

— Gusso Montanna

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

— Mitchell Reiss

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

— Robert Edmond Jones