R Quotes
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“Realism has always been called cynicism.”
“Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.”
“Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.”
“Realism is a corruption of reality.”
“Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.”
“Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.”
“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.”
“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.”
“Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.”
“Realism is criminal.”
“Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.”
“Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.”
“Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.”
“Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.”
“Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.”
“Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.”
Source: Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones
“Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.”
“Realism is wisdom to use power true to life. Self-doubt will only hold you back from pursuing your dreams, and the harsh realities of life will only humble your self-importance.” ~Tunde Salami”
“Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.”
“Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.”
“Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.”
Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs
“Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.”
“Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.”
“REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.”
Source: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories
“Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.”
“Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.”
“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”
Source: Waterland
“Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.”
“Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.”
“Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.”
“Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.”
“Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes”
“Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.”
“Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.”
Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969
“Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.”
“Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.”
“Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.”
“Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?”
“Realistically, we aren't always able to leave things better than the way we found them, but it's fair to ask that we try not to leave them worse.”
“Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.”
“Realistically, I don't let any of criticisms get to me. I know who I am, I know what I am, I know what I'm capable of, and if these guys have faith in what I'm doing, as I have faith in what they're doing, nothing can stop me.”
“Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.”
“Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.”
“Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.”
“Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.”
“Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.”
Source: The Jewish state: (Der Judenstaat).
“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”
“Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there.”