Realist Quotes

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

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.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

What reality was ever made by realists?

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

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.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

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, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

men are not realists - only women are.

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.