Realism famous quotes

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Telling The Truth #Realism #Socialist

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
-- Alton Tobey

#Artistic #Exploration #Realism

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
-- Bette Davis

#Reality #Hollywood #Realism

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
-- Childe Hassam

#People #Realism #Impressionism

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite
-- Crispin Glover

#Cinema #Film #Realism

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
-- Dylan Moran

#Achieve #Realism #Surreal

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
-- Edmund White

#Avant Garde #Sincerity #Realism

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

#Way #Realism #Values

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Safety #Danger #Realism

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
-- George Lakoff

#Real #Realism #Humans

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
-- George Parsons Lathrop

#Realism #Worthy #Significance

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
-- Henri Bergson

#Reality #Soul #Realism

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
-- Hob Broun

#Reality #Realism

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
-- Irvine Welsh

#Needs #Stuff #Realism

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
-- Jackson Pollock

#Painting #Kind #Realism

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
-- Jacques Audiard

#Cinema #Realism #Interest

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
-- Jean Renoir

#Film #Realism

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

#Moving #Fantasy #Realism

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
-- John Wooden

#Hard Work #Add #Realism

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.
-- Joshua L. Goldberg

#Giving #Spirit #Realism

Abstraction and realism work best together.
-- Ken Danby

#Together #Realism

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
-- Laura Marling

#Song #Optimistic #Realism

I only understand realism.
-- Manuel Puig

#Realism

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

#Philosophy #Poetic #Realism

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
-- Martin Gore

#Trying #Degrees #Realism

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
-- Mary Parker Follett

#Realism #Idealism

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.
-- Michael Jackson

#Plastic #Realism

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Realism #Skepticism

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
-- Paul Lynde

#Comedy #Realism

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
-- Philip Gulley

#Reality #Long #Realism

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

#Reality #Realism #Figures

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
-- Samuel Beckett

#Reality #Realism #Surface

We need realism to deal with reality.
-- Slick Rick

#Reality #Needs #Realism

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
-- Tommy Wiseau

#Actors #Directors #Realism

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
-- Vikas Swarup

#Bird #Magic #Realism

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-- William Hague

#Realism #Idealism #Foreign Policy

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!
-- William Morris Hunt

#Reality #Appearance #Realism

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
-- Zane Grey

#Realism

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
-- Fred D'Aguiar

#Way #Speak #Realism

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.
-- Gerd de Ley

#Dream #Reality #Realism

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
-- Nikki Jean

#Art #Ugly #Realism

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
-- Armond White

#Realism

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.
-- Robert Coover

#Guy #Realism

Realism and art cannot live together.
-- Jeanette Lee

#Art #Together #Realism