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Quotes About Realist

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.
~ Philippe de Montebello
The (paradoxical?) correlative of Hegelian ideology is a realist reading of scientific texts: by way of the concept, the content shows through. We read as if words were holes in the page through which reality surfaces; or again, skylights through which the real process can be studied in a kind of speculative voyeurism.
~ Pierre Macherey
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
~ Tichina Arnold
From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.
~ Wallace Stevens
Central to my analysis is the agential realist understanding of matter as a dynamic and shifting entanglement of relations, rather than as a property of things.
~ Karen Barad
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
~ Bill Maher
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
~ Jessica Chastain
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
~ David Coverdale
God save me from idealists.
~ Jim Butcher
Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.
~ Alexei Panshin
I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that new wave of Scandinavian realist drama.
~ Brian Gleeson
It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.
~ Kathy Acker
realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!
~ David Nicholls
How a painter treats this edge is the real subject of realist painting; how the brush behaves in the vicinity of an edge gives a painting its present-tenseness, the feeling of the eternal present.
~ David Salle
The realist always falls in love with a girl he has grown up with, the romanticist with a girl from 'off somewhere.
~ Robert Frost
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
[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.
~ Alistair Cooke
Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.
~ André Bazin
I am not a daydreamer.
~ Arjen Robben
Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You know, the ones you read on your sofa with a nice cup of tea.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
~ David Coverdale
In short, the place looked exactly like that section of the socialist realist mural where the workers have been utterly shafted by the plutocrats. Dortmunder looked up, half-expecting to see top hats and cigars in the gloom up there, but nothing.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
~ Jessica Chastain