Top 821 Idealism And Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

Realism and art cannot live together.

People want to see realism in action now.

The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

Guy Ritchie likes to ground things in realism.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

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

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Conservative politics are about pragmatism, realism and stability.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

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

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

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

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

I'm a big fan of Italian neo-realism and all of that stuff.

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.