Quotes About Realism

I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes -- disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Leave a log in the water as long as you like: it will never be a crocodile.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I don't know anyone who's 100 percent pure - nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

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

'Generation Kill' was not a very glamorous shoot. For all intents and purposes, it was low budget, and all the money they had went to what you see on the screen.