Character Quote by George Parsons Lathrop

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

— 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

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

— Jean Cocteau

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

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 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

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

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…

— Willa Cather

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

— Hob Broun

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

— George Lakoff