Realism Quotes

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

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

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

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Don't look back, you can never look back

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?