Famous quotes containing the word realist:
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
—David Ben Gurion (1886–1973)
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)