Quotes About Realism

The best of men are just men at best.

Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.

We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

How long will we show birds and bees in love scenes? The world has moved on and we should portray intimate scenes realistically.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count me out on that.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.