Books Quote by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

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

— Federico Fellini

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

— Hob Broun

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

— Manuel Puig

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

— Fumito Ueda

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an…

— Charles J. Shields

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense…

— John Fiske

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

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

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad…

— Sherwood Anderson

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is…

— Lucy Corin