Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
Louis C. K.
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
Emma Donoghue
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
Charles Van Doren
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
Drake
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.
Frans de Waal
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
Jesse Eisenberg
We know the ideal isn't where the action is.
Joseph Epstein