Best Realism Lines
351 Realism quotes by 268 unique authors
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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
— Oscar Wilde
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Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
— Philip Gulley
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You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.
— Pablo Picasso
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Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time…
— Edvard Munch
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So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
— Jean Baudrillard
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A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear…
— Epictetus
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I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered…
— Jean Cocteau
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
— Charles Kuralt
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Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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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
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The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take…
— Teresa of Avila
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
— Clive Bell
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...
— Alain de Botton
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Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you…
— Richard Rohr
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Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
— Fernand Leger
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You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!
— William Morris Hunt
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Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great…
— Alex Grey
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Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ?…
— Lauren Hutton
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I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting -…
— Kazimir Malevich
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
— Ben Nicholson
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