Realist Quotes - page 5

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. (Benjamin Graham)
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too. View quote
Tom Petty
You say paranoia, I say surveillance state. Worried about being tracked by hidden cameras stealthy air-borne remotely piloted vehicles, and chips implanted in your skull? You're merely a realist. View quote
Charles Stross
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are.. ..culminating in Courbet at his mightiest [paintings] (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). View quote
Gustave Courbet
By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. View quote
Samuel Beckett
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. View quote
Chuck Close
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. View quote
Frank Bruno
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles. View quote
Conor Oberst
I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own. (Giuseppe Verdi)
Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness; Life with calm death; the falcon's Realist eyes and act Married to the massive Mysticism of stone, Which failure cannot cast down Nor success make proud. View quote
Robinson Jeffers
The visionary is the only true realist. View quote
Federico Fellini
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
I often sketched by moonlight {in the 1890's] - cows resting or standing immovable in flat Dutch meadows, or houses with dead, blank windows. I never painted these things romantically, but from the very beginning I was always a realist. View quote
Piet Mondrian
But you seem so nonchalant about it all,” Teal said. Merlin pondered this for a few seconds. "Do you think being not nonchalant would make any difference? I don't know that it would. We're here in the moment, aren't we? And the moment will have its way with us, no matter how we feel about things.” "Fatalist.” "Cheerful realist. There's a distinction. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
I think, here is your emblem To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive, But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness; Life with calm death; the falcon's Realist eyes and act Married to the massive Mysticism of stone, Which failure cannot cast down Nor success make proud. View quote
Robinson Jeffers