Quote by Carol Novack

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

— Anonymous

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 is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the…

— Gertrude Stein

“Realism is the trend.”

— Benjamin Percy

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to…

— Albert Camus

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Hob Broun

“The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure…

— Michael Richardson

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

— George Parsons Lathrop