Lost Quote by Anonymous

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

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Hob Broun

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

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

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

— Manuel Puig

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

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

— Federico Fellini

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

— John Fiske

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

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real…

— Georgia O'Keeffe