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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
Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Realism and art cannot live together.
— Jeanette Lee
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
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
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
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
— Elliott Abrams
An optimist without realism is an idiot.
— Ben Tolosa
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
Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy ...
— James S.A. Corey
Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season
— Clarice Lispector
Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation
— Aldous Huxley
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
Realism that is limited to the end of one's nose is more dangerous than the most insane fantasticality, because it's blind.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
— Jackson Pollock
Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at - gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique.
— Marcus Aurelius
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
— Ruth Dugdall
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
— David Heinemeier Hansson
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
— Terry Pratchett
Don't let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it's hopeless.
— A.J. Darkholme
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
— Cesare Pavese
The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms.
— Erin Entrada Kelly
Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.
— Nelson Shanks
It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.
— Simone Elkeles
Realism can break a writer's heart.
— Salman Rushdie
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
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
— Samuel Beckett
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.
— Anton Chekhov
I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.
— Ricky Gervais
No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person's true destiny.
— Stephen Whitfield
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
