Realism Quotes

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

Give, While, Actor

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley

Best, Nothing, Situation

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

Pretty, Wanted, Hollywood

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
Tori Amos

Change, Time, Same

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Jerry Saltz

Women, Off, Knowing

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Best, War

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Gustave Flaubert

Hate, Made, High

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau

True, Seeing, Habit

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson

Reality, Trying, Dark

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

Hard, Painting, Drove

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank

Good, Humanity, Together

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

Thought, Idealism, Tempered

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
Ron Fournier

America, Said, Optimism

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini

Bad, Real, Everything

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
Tony Kushner

Success, Mean, Sense

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
Charlie Kaufman

Movies, Nothing, Reality

I only understand realism.
Manuel Puig

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Manuel Puig

Nothing, Reality, Film

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.
Rob Sheffield

Problem, Often, Secret

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow

Wanted, Conscience, Social

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

Comedy, Almost, Stretched

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Book, Done, Both

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
Mitch McConnell

Today, Confused, Same

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney

Positive, Sense, Writers

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

Pretty, Call, Songs

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
Mitchell Reiss

Show, Bit, Hopeful

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter

Family, Time, War

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
Alice Hoffman

Dark, Quality, Magic

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky

Mean, Country, Rich

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
Daniel Clowes

Give, Vision, Line

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