The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Being a realist helps protect me from disappointment in both my business and personal life. — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, and I thought from the get-go that NATO expansion was going to lead to one heck of a lot… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit… — Eden Winters Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow 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
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
A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq 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
“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
“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
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
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism. — Torbjorn Tannsjo 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
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
