Quotes About Realism

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.