Quotes About Realism

You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being. If you operate, which most of us do, from the premise that there are things about the contemporary U.S. that make it distinctively hard to be a real human being, then maybe half of fiction's job is to dramatize what makes it tough. The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still are human beings, now. Or can be…I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't good art.

For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see.

Himself had apparently thought the stilted, wooden quality of nonprofessionals helped to strip away the pernicious illusion of realism and to remind the audience that they were in reality watching actors acting and not people behaving.

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

unfortunately we have to make war as we must and not as we should like to.

Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

It was the doomed competition with photography that had led painting to lose its ways in the mindless transcription of reality. Admittedly the scorn for realism had been a traditional theme of premodern art theory, often mapped onto onto a geographic distinction. The direct imitation of reality was the northern European weakness, a limitation to be countered by an idealism cultivated in the Mediterranean realm.

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

Basically it means the world's a giant shithole, but some of us are capable of imagining something better.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Men must know their limitations.

ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism.

You look terrible,' said Saffy sternly. 'I always look terrible at two o'clock in the morning,' Mummy replied, splashing cold tap water on her face.

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

Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

Reality—Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams—Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom