Art Quote by Albert Camus

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

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

— Asger Jorn

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

— George Lakoff

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

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

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

— Federico Fellini

Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco