He had a sense of greatness in literature, as is shown by his reverence of Shakespeare, and he was too much of a realist not to see that his own writings at their best were trifles beside the monuments of the poets.
The realist considers that the painter's function is to transcribe it, to copy it on to canvas.
When a realist loses hold on reality all is lost, and I for one can find not a word to say in favour of Daniel Deronda, her next and last novel, which came out, with popularity at first more wonderful than ever, in 1876.
No one can be a thorough-going realist with regard to music, which is so indisputably a self-contained independent construction.
He is a realist: and it is an extraordinary feat of heroism to be a realist in America.
More often than the realisthe is tempted to assert uncertainties--tempted to say with vividness and charm things of which he cannot quite be sure.
More and more, as the realist advances in technic and gains in ability to represent the actual, he is tempted to make photographs of life instead of pictures.
The romantic necessarily demands a deeper faith in his wisdom than the realist need ask for; and he can evoke deep faith only by absolute sincerity and utter clearness in the presentation of his fable.
The whole of human life, or any part of it, offers materials for romantic and realist alike.
The reader who is a realist by nature will prefer George Eliot to Scott; the reader who is romantic will rather read Victor Hugo than Flaubert; and neither taste is better than the other.
Since the realist leads us to a comprehension of his truth through a careful imitation of the actual, the thing most to be desired in a realistic setting is fidelity to fact; and this can be attained only by accurate observation.
The incipient realist is almost obliged to accept this advice; but the incipient romantic need not necessarily do so.
So stated, the distinction is as follows: In setting forth his view of life, the realist follows the inductive method of presentment, and the romantic follows the deductive method.
The distinction between realism and romance is fundamental and deep-seated; for every man, whether consciously or not, is either a romantic or a realist in the dominant habit of his thought.
The young aspirant to the art of fiction who knows himself to be an incipient realist had therefore best confine his efforts to attempted reproduction of the life he sees about him.
The naiverealist remains in the sphere of natural explanation.
The naive realist has no need of the hypothesis of a knower, since he can furnish an adequate physical account of the numerical duplicity of the star.
While the realist (explicitly or implicitly) conceives the knowledge relation as obtaining between a subject knower and the external world, Dewey interprets the knowledge relation in terms of organism and environment.
How has this wrong upon the worthy realist of the eighteenth century been perpetrated?
I have observed with wondering surprise the steady and constant growth of the idea that Baron Munchausen was not a man of truth; that his statements of fact were untrustworthy, and that as a realist he had no standing whatsoever.
Walter Scott was a master realist if you forget his old-fashioned operatic scenery and costumes.
And at a period when the distaff of fiction is too often in the hands of men the voice of the romantic realist and poetic ironist, Joseph Conrad, sounds a dynamic masculine bass amid the shriller choir.
But realist as Conrad is, he is also a poet who knows, as he says himself, that "the power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
In his mystic latter-day rhapsodies it is therealist who sees, the realist who makes those poignant, image-breeding phrases.
I am only a realistin the highest sense of the word, i.
He is a genuine realist as opposed to the decorative classicism of Gauguin.
Zola admitted to a few intimates that Guy was not the realist that Huysmans was.
Three political parties (the National Socialist, Radical and Realist Parties) were dissolved and their organs suppressed.
It shows us with what ability he could dramatize a romantic tale; with what license as a realist imagine and portray an unmoral, when not immoral, semblance of contemporary life.
The artist is a realist so far as he deals with the actual life and the genuine beliefs of his time; but he is an idealist so far as he sees the most essential facts and utters the deepest and most permanent truths in his own dialect.
Walter Burleigh, were among the orthodox Averroïsts; the latter figuring as a Realist against William of Occam.
On the other hand, while we have seen Occam a fugitive before clerical enmity, we shall see Nominalists agreeing to persecute a Realist to the death in the person of Huss in the following century.
A Realist in his philosophy, Duns Scotus opposed the Aristotelian scholasticism, and in particular criticized Thomas Aquinas as having unduly subordinated faith and practice to speculation and theory.
His work eventually differed from that of Courbet and Courbet's disciples, but he was always as much a realist as they in his preference for the world in which he lived, and in his study of the relations of the things he found in it.
But Courbet was no more a realist than Whistler if realism means truth.
The realist who makes a poem, not on his lady's eyebrows but her intestines, is a good current example.
The realist poet, so the Greeks would have said, lacks measure.
He fears debasement, he hates vulgarity, and his realist soul admits the high probability of both in a society whose standards are broader than they are high.
Realist he is clearly, in the philosophic sense of one who is willing to view things as they are without prejudice.
To a critic they are most interesting, for the novel of the alleged young realist is like a fresh country boy on a football field, powerful, promising, and utterly wasteful of its strength.
And it seems to me in so doing he shows himself a better realist than the gifted representatives of the orthodox realism in France, England, and America.
Turgenev is a realist in the sense that he keeps close to reality, truth, and nature.
This poet is not a realist at all, of course--far from it.
Illustration: MARK TWAIN] Another realistof a very different kind is Samuel L.
Thackeray was intellectual; he looked at men with critical eyes, and was a realist and a pessimist.
A realist does not actually feel eager to comprehend the essential problems of existence; he even denies the need of seeking truth, and does not believe in those who are searching for reconcilement and religion, philosophy, or art.
You are only a realist in the sense that you do not care to waste time over sentimental, trivial, and aimless dreams, like so many women.
But when we consider that a true realist would never dream of seeking consolation in music, as you do, it is evident you are far more of an idealist.
If this is so, then the word of the great realist must be true, that "only strength conquers.
But, as a matter of fact, great as realist and artist as she was, she does not hesitate at that heightening of effect which insures clearer seeing, longer remembering and a keener pleasure.
It is not too much to say that, pictorially, he is the first great English realist of the Novel.
It is usual to refer to Balzac as the first great realist of the French, indeed, of modern fiction.
It were a great mistake to regard Balzac as merely a writer who photographed things outside in the world; he is intensely interested in the things within--and if objectivity meant realism exclusively, he would be no realist at all.
But being by instinct a realist too, he gave vent to his passion for truth-telling so far as he dared, in a day when it was far less fashionable to do this than it now is.
Also, we leave the solid ground of contemporary themes and find the realist with her hang for truth, essaying an historical setting, an entirely new and foreign motive.
She was old-fashioned in her adherence to the "pleasant ending"; realist though she was, she could not go to the lengths either of theme or interpretation in the portrayal of life which later novelists have so sturdily ventured.
Let me again quote those words, extraordinary as coming from the man who is called arch-realist of his day: "The novelist should depict the world not alone as it is, but a possibly better world.
This is tabooed by the present-day realist canons.
The latter-day realist will be found in the end to have permanently contributed this, a welcome legacy to our time, after its excesses and absurdities are forgotten.
The realist lingers in the dissecting chamber for very delight in revolting themes.
This Johannes Heynlin a Lapide, however, though a violent champion of the then victorious Realist party, was by no means a man without liberal sentiments.
Johannes Heynlin a Lapide, a former head of a house in Paris, migrated to Basle, in order to lend his influence and authority to the Realist party in that rising university.
There is the great distinction between realism and reality: It is the business of a realist to preach how man is mastered by circumstances; it is the business of a man to prove that he will be damned first.
There wasn't a realist on the job--they couldn't stand the gaff.
And the same--very same--inspiration is only methodically differentiated according as the artist is an arrant realist or an arrant idealist.
After all this business with Father Zossima, which has so upset me, from this very day I’m a realist and I want to devote myself to practical usefulness.
I shall be told, perhaps, that red cheeks are not incompatible with fanaticism and mysticism; but I fancy that Alyosha was more of a realist than any one.
If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.
