Realism Quote by David Foster Wallace

“For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism:…

— David Foster Wallace

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

— James Elkins

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

— Eudora Welty

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

— Mooji

Imagination is a form of seeing

— Anonymous

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

— Jennifer Stone

Seeing is in itself a movement.

— Robert Delaunay

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

— George Parsons Lathrop

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

— Hsing Yun

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

— Federico Fellini

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

— Jonathan Swift

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop…

— Ramana Maharshi