Quotes by Realism Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. Gilbert K. Chesterton realism reason lost Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it. Heinz Pagels realism shows Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. Henri Bergson realism soul reality Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions. Henry A. Kissinger realism majority decision There is no realism without an element of idealism. Henry A. Kissinger realism idealism elements Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else. Hob Broun realism reality You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too. Irvine Welsh realism stuff needs He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. Jackson Pollock realism painting kind The cinema that interests me departs from realism. Jacques Audiard realism cinema interest I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. Jean-Pierre Melville realism fantasy moving There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. Jean Renoir american-film realism film Realism and art cannot live together. Jeanette Lee realism together art Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. John Wooden realism hard-work add Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. Jonathan Franzen realism particular world Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. Joshua L. Goldberg realism spirit giving Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel realism christian-life christianity Abstraction and realism work best together. Ken Danby realism abstraction together My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. Laura Marling realism optimistic song You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality. Leon Blum realism realms reality Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. Ludwig Wittgenstein realism idealism ifs «1234»