Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I've noticed a lot of people saying F Love. Do u know what u r saying when u make that statement??? 1… — DeAngelo Stokes Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Our generation will eventually lead to an era were doing the wrong thing will seem right and doing the right thing will… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image