Inspirational Quote by Fernand Leger

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

— Asger Jorn

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

— Edgar Degas

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

— Haruki Murakami

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

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

— Hob Broun

Value is coextensive with reality.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

— Paul Klee

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

— George Lakoff

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

— George Parsons Lathrop

I only understand realism.

— Manuel Puig