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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
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley
You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. — Pablo Picasso
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
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
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
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
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it. — Charles Kuralt
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
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
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh
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
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
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
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
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon
Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art. — Clive Bell
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
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
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
You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality! — William Morris Hunt
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
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
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
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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