Realism Quote by George Parsons Lathrop

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

— Jean Cocteau

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these…

— George Parsons Lathrop

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

— Anonymous

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— Hob Broun

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

— Edgar Degas

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

People want to see realism in action now.

— Akshay Kumar

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

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