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Cathey, Robert Andrew, God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).
— Ronald T. Michener
Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal.
— Roger Scruton
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
— Alton Tobey
I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.
— Ralph Lauren
You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.
— Ricky Gervais
Realism and art cannot live together.
— Jeanette Lee
Magical Realist writer write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary.
— Bruce Holland Rogers
Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism
— Federico Fellini
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
— George Lakoff
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
— Edmund Burke
Realism is a corruption of reality.
— Wallace Stevens
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
— Isaiah Berlin
We are not against the evil when our enemies are.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There are always loose ends in real life.
— Robert Galbraith
The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?
— Lenore Skenazy
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge.
— Balroop Singh
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.
— Paul Virilio
An optimist without realism is an idiot.
— Ben Tolosa
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
It is easier to start a war than to end it.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
— Paul Lynde
A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous! — William Dean Howells
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
— Ruth Dugdall
Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.
— F.K. Preston
Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.
— Andre Bazin
Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at - gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique.
— Marcus Aurelius
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
— Jackson Pollock
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
— Isabella Rossellini
And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.
— James Kelman
For these were the days when Time was still the horizon of beauty and had not yet begun its slow inexorable destructions.
— J. Mulrooney
You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Moral writing is boring.
— Johan Van Wyk
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
— Gustave Flaubert
The realism of failure, the romance of success.
— Mason Cooley
Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.
— Fanny Britt
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
— John C. Maxwell
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
— Lisa Papademetriou
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
— Douglas Alexander
I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
— Martin Gore
They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.
— Ransom Riggs
When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.
— Ade Santi
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.
— Anton Zeilinger
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
— Mary E. Pearson
...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
— Honore De Balzac
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
— Lynn Flewelling
Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
— Milton Friedman
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
— Marguerite Young
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
— Jacques Audiard
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
— Jean Renoir
If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have.
— Pontius Joseph
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
— Kayt C. Peck
She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.
— Alice Hoffman
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
— Fernand Leger
The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Maybe we should always assume the worst.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Sex sells & the small print will kill you
— Phillip McCarron
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
— Mary Parker Follett
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
— Oscar Wilde
Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination.
— Matt Haig
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
— A.J. Darkholme
You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.
— Jamie Le Fay
The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism.
— Karl R. Popper
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.
— E. E. Cummings
If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Denying realism amounts to megalomania.
— Karl R. Popper
My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
— Laura Marling
