Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason. . . that is its reason for existing.
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
Realism is a corruption of reality.
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.
It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.
I only understand realism.
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.
I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.