Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness of soul. You want the region to prosper; you want countries to do well, and you are prepared to help them.
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
