Best Realist Quotes
145 Realist quotes by 127 unique authors
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Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
— Theodor Herzl
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How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop…
— Andy Warhol
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I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist…
— Steven Morrissey
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An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
— Peter Drucker
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A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war…
— Michael Shaara
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My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are…
— Ralph Goings
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Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
— H. L. Mencken
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
— Arthur Symons
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
— Hakim Bey
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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the…
— Chris Gardner
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Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters
— Sandrine Bonnaire
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It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
— Julien Benda
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The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
— Marty Liquori
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It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society…
— Teresa Heinz
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World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the…
— Don Williams
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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,…
— Stephen Hawking
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An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all…
— Vera Nazarian
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The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything…
— Donald Harington
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Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological…
— Satish Kumar
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
— Esther Perel
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The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
— Chuck Close
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Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They…
— Gerhard Richter
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
— Seth Godin
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