Realist Quotes - Page 3

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

What reality was ever made by realists?

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.