Confusing Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Federico Fellini

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

— Hob Broun

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

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 corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

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

— Anonymous

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale…

— Satish Kumar

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

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

— Lynne Tillman