Quotes About Realism

I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

Disappointment is good for kids; it prepares them for the real world, where it's not all about them and their feelings.

Porque vivo en el mundo real, no como tú. Prefieres habitar en un mundo de fantasía antes que ver cómo son los demás realmente.

If it looks like computer graphics, it is not good computer graphics.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.