33+ Realism Quotes

Realism is one of 234 isms. Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements. Realism finds its roots in the late 18th century. Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier are some of chief exponents of realism. This is a collection of 35 realism quotes and sayings.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. - Jean Cocteau

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world. - Ales Kot

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. - Edgar Degas

We need realism to deal with reality. - Slick Rick

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. - Walter J. Phillips

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. - John C. Maxwell

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. - Robert Edmond Jones

There is no realism without an element of idealism. - Henry A. Kissinger

Realism and abstractionism are not enemies. They eat out of the same dish, but their digestive systems are different. - Leo Stein

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. Henri Bergson

The only realism in art is of the imagination. - William Carlos Williams

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason that is its reason for existing. - G.K. Chesterton

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. - Ayn Rand

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

Realism seems not like an end in itself, but like a portal to something truly new. - Melanie Peter

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. - Audrey Flack

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude Mckay

Realism is a corruption of reality. - Wallace Stevens

Reality itself is too obvious to be true. - Jean Baudrillard

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. - Colson Whitehead

Realism can break a writer's heart. - Salman Rushdie

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. Dawn Powell

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. - Aldous Huxley

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. - Federico Fellini

Realism, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. - Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is more real than nothing. - Samuel Beckett

Realism ... falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. - Eugène Ionesco

Realism is often mistakenly identified with the view that there is some special discipline which has privileged access to the real. - David Clark

It's not clear to me that realism is a rallying cry. - Bob Shrum

The term 'realism' is utterly misleading: it should be replaced by the distinct, though related, term of 'realisticness'. - Thomas Boylan

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids. - Ursula K. Le Guin

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Realism dies when it fails to go beyond imitation. - Calvin Tomkins

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