Top 1200 Real Artists Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

I want to be the girl that's real and show other girls that you don't have to have flawless skin or the 'perfect' body - because that's just not real.

The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.

I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

Writing is a real activity conducted in real time.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He's real different than what you thinks. He's super turned up.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.

The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

I'm able to express myself better now. I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

If a person perceives a situation as real, it is real in its consequences.

I think some people feel that if you question the reality of race, you're questioning racism; you're saying racism isn't real. Racism is real because people actually believe race is real. We'd have to really let go of the 500-year-old idea of race as a worldview in order to undo racism.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

As a player, you'd rather be up against Barcelona, Real Madrid, or Bayern. Big clubs. Great atmosphere. Real excitement.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people - the real friends - are with you through thick and thin.

I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

Look, at some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate to be the guy to do it, but it's just not real.

What Republican voters have shown us is that when they have the choice between the real thing and the fake one, they go with the real one every time.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.