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351 Realism quotes by 268 unique authors
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Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
— Walter J. Phillips
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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
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Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half…
— Larry Winget
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I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and…
— E. J. Hughes
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating…
— E. J. Hughes
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the…
— Burton Silverman
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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
— Tommy Wiseau
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Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
— Ron Fournier
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough -…
— Robert Frank
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
— Martin Gore
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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
— Gustave Courbet
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
— E E Cummings
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
— Bette Davis
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When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and…
— Junot Diaz
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
— Philip K. Dick
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
— Betty Dodson
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer…
— Albert Einstein
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
— Federico Fellini
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
— Gustave Flaubert
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
— William Hague
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left…
— Sydney J. Harris
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
— Seamus Heaney
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