Top 821 Idealism And Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

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

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

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

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

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

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.