Top 263 Realist Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
Prince Philip prides himself on being a realist. He knows he is not going to live for ever.
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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.
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?
I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).
I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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.
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that new wave of Scandinavian realist drama.
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
I don't think I've ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist.
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.
The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
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.
I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
