Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.” — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
Over done forgotten gone. The most powerful words in the universe! — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of… — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality.… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
