Quotes About Realism

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.