Quotes About Realism

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

It's just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of our youthful years.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

I defy you to find a statue or a monument ever erected to anyone because they were realistic. All dreamers, all achievers, all great people kept their child-like faith in their own dream and their ability to carry it out, and these great people had an inordinate gift to disregard the word's cries for reality.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

It's hard living with eternal optimists. No matter how many times life craps on them, they wipe it off their faces and smile. I seem to be the only one who has accepted the truth: there is nothing around that corner but more crap.

I don't expect life to be easy. It hasn't been yet and I'm not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don't have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.