Realistic Quotes

510 Realistic quotes by 442 unique authors

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified… — Georgia O'Keeffe
You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard… — Chogyam Trungpa
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical… — Stanley Kubrick
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. — Ben Okri
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's… — Walter Kirn
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in… — Walter Darby Bannard
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't… — Robert Bateman
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
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes
The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.… — Norman Vincent Peale
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the… — Walter Cronkite
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are… — John Dewey
Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat. — Georges St-Pierre
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream… — David Gill
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions.… — Steven Biko
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government… — George Will
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any… — Paul Valery
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong. — Arjun Rampal
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be… — George Steiner

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