Realism Quotes · Page 8

"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of…

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

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

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…

— Alice Hoffman

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

— Mason Cooley

... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the…

— Lev Manovich

My mum used to tell me meeting the wrong friend makes you suffer for ten years & meeting the wrong man makes…

— Anonymous

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

— Oscar Wilde

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Real women get a call before bed, side chicks get a text, hoes get a smoke signal or pigeon sent over with…

— Kiana J Wilson

Stop being so insecure about yourself because there is absolutely noone in the the world who can be you. You are one…

— Leonor

“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When…

— Shannon L. Alder

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

— Timothy Morton

It Seems Like The More You Find Out About Someone The Less You Know Them

— Kiana JWilson

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from…

— J. L. Austin

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

— Sean Baker

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…

— Joseph Boyden

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living…

— Wallace Stegner

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

— Armond White

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move…

— Elizabeth Sims