Quotes About Realism

The facts of life are conservative.

I see myself as traditional even though I know you see my work as experimental. I don't really consider Sterne, Joyce, and Proust experimental either because the tradition of their writing goes back a long way. Traditional. The Grand Tradition. Clear back to "Don Quixote." I never decided to write in a "new way" at all. It's realism that's fairly new. Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame." --

America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.

Giving up is not being coward. You are just realistic with what you can and what you cannot.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

The heroes of the faith usually have feet of clay—sometimes thighs, hearts, and heads as well. The

On the other hand, I can't stand these lads thickening up their accents and singing about shit kisses and cigs and chip shops, this affected realism – it's not that far removed from George Formby.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Humor comes out of the unexpected: If there's no surprise, there's no laugh. In a triple, as discussed in chapter seven, the first two lines are often straight lines; this is the realistic element. The third line is the surprise twist—logically related to the first two lines, but unexpected and exaggerated. Realism is the setup, while exaggeration is the joke. "Get your facts first," wrote Mark Twain, "and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Since it appears that exaggeration is the logical antithesis of realism, it may seem ludicrous to have both within the framework of one piece of humor. But good humor is a paradox—the unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable—and that creates surprise. Think

Real life doesn't skip the rough stuff.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life, " Standard said."Then at least you'll never be disappointed.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.