Accounts Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— Anonymous

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

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

— Hob Broun

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff…

— Charlie Kaufman

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

— Jean Cocteau

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

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

— Federico Fellini

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