Quotes About Realism

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What I'm saying is, where have all the real people gone? Where are the recognizably-human beings? Of course, it's silly of me to look them on TV commercials, no one watches ads for their true-to-life portrayals. If the ads were full of real people, they wouldn't be able to sell anything. Which is the point of this rambling column. Real people just don't sell.

Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.

However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.

I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

a man doesn't want something reasonable, but practical.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

Until now monogamy has been the default setting, and it sits on the premise (however unrealistic) that if you truly love, you should no longer be attracted to others.

We liken the passion of the beginning to adolescent intoxication—both transient and unrealistic. The consolation for giving it up is the security that waits on the other side. Yet when we trade passion for stability, are we not merely swapping one fantasy for another? As Stephen Mitchell points out, the fantasy of permanence may trump the fantasy of passion, but both are products of our imagination.

Romantics value intensity over stability; realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live at either extreme.

it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.

The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,' he later wrote in The World Crisis; 'the outlook of the leader on whose decisions fateful events depend is usually far more sanguine than the brutal facts admit.'45

They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.

Il mio più gran difetto è la bontà illimitata. Io devo semplicemente fare del bene. Ma sono un nano ragionevole e so che non riuscirò mai a farlo a tutti. Se provassi a essere buono con tutti, col mondo intero e con tutte le creature che lo popolano, sarebbe una goccia nel mare: in altre parole, uno sforzo inutile. Perciò ho deciso di fare del bene in modo concreto, così che non vada sprecato. Sono buono con me e con chi mi è più vicino.

The trouble with magical realism for me, as I suggested earlier, is that it is neither realistic nor magical.

Philip said that the older he got the more he realised that everyone in Dickens, without exception, was a real person, and quite a lot of them were among his friends.

We both loved Mac for his practicality. We loved him because we saw that he was naive, to think there was always a way for people to get help.

In the old days she would have dug in her heels, but she was old and canny enough to realize there was no point starting battles you could never win.

There was nothing picturesque here. No thatch. It would never have featured in an episode of Midsomer Murders.

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet.

What if someone created some sort of eyebrow pencil that was revolutionary and that was made specifically to help eyebrows look more realistic?

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.