Realism Quotes - Page 2

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

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

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

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

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.