Quotes About Realism

People with a realistic view see rejections as a natural part of life and adjust accordingly. It

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.

Principled Realism is merely a slogan; America First is a slogan with a past.

We should be encouraging our children to push themselves, to develop their talents and passions, but we should also be aware that the bromide "You can do anything" is wishful thinking.

between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

You should wait, William, Miss Frost said. The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

I'm not sure it's altogether right to encourage and reward fighting and killing, but that's the way things are.

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.