Quotes About Realism

Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

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.

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. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we're going to kill you. We like our pain. And we're packaging it, and we're selling it.

A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

If you are thinking, My co-workers and I don't compete, we are one big happy family, brace yourself for a cold splash of reality. You can establish friendships in the workplace, but work at times will be a game with winners and losers. If you don't realize that, you are being naïve, and you are going to get hurt and taken advantage of.

Sometimes we achieve the impossible sooner than we expect. Knowing that can stiffen our resolve. But it can also tempt us to place too much emphasis on outcomes; it can cause us to become unduly impatient, brittle, setback easily breaking our will. A deeper, more farseeing hope, by contrast, combines realism with resilience, acknowledging terror and suffering without giving in to them.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Realism and art cannot live together.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Politics is the art of the possible.

What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.

just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. —Sydney J. Harris

She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.