Realism Quotes · Page 9

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

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

— Michael Jackson

“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”

— Perry Anderson

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

— Oscar Wilde

“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Giving up is not being coward. You are just realistic with what you can and what you cannot.

— Yvonne Urlanda

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

— Igor Babailov

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

— Debbie Reynolds

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

— Seamus Heaney

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books,…

— Lisa Papademetriou

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be…

— Ricky Gervais

“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands…

— Howard Thurman

“Ultimately, the violence in a game should serve the gameplay. If it doesn’t, then it’s gratuitous and you should consider doing without…

— Ernest Adams

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but…

— Tommy Wiseau

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,…

— Gerhard Richter

Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to…

— Daniel Fried

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“But time … how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only…

— Julian Barnes

One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea…

— Sergio Chejfec

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in…

— Jessica Hagedorn

“I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of…

— Torgny Lindgren

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

— Bertrand Russell

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one…

— Fernand Leger

“Realism is a religion for rich men, the poor are content with fantasy.”

— Tamarind

“Aren't 3,000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?”

— Zack Love

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all…

— Anonymous

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

— Sean Baker

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

— William Butler Yeats

If you had all the money in the world you still can never buy Loyalty its priceless

— Rich Homie Quan

“O Lucky! How can you desire to be uncivil while all around are Google Cameras. Says Bhutta(After 20 dozen moons)”

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Short Story Writer

It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I believe in more than a God could ever give me...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

— John C. Maxwell

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

— Laura Esquivel

The American people are going to be ready for an era of realism. Theyve seen the consequences of having too many big…

— James Carville

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

— Cesare Pavese