Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I’m a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn’t mean you have to fall in love.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs… — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
“I’m a realist,” I replied stubbornly, “not a romantic. Romantics are always disappointed.” “Maybe they’re disappointed because they’re always surrounded by realists.”… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK,… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
“A realist is a man of action, because he does not dwell too much on reason when the results or the end… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, so I tend to look at life, well, not through rose-colored glasses, let's put it that way. I thought,… — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
“But he could not help it. No one can help it. One is a realist. One has put up with it all… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, I live right here on planet Earth and I know what's real. — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
“I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.” — Philippe de Montebello Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
“A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.” — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Fighting the best guys in the division is absolutely what I want, but at the same time I'm a realist. — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
