Art Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end.…

— Julia Marlowe

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite…

— Albert Camus

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

— Sherwood Anderson

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

— Sherwood Anderson

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 a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Hob Broun

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…

— Willa Cather

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

— Anonymous

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

— Jean Cocteau

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

— Ursula K. Le Guin