Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

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

“Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism’s…

— Mark Fisher

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

— Anonymous

“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from?…

— Mark Fisher

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say…

— Dario Fo

“Sometimes realism seems to mean no more than the advice to plan ahead before you start a war. Sometimes realism means the recognition that…

— Susan Neiman

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...”

— John Fowles

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties…

— Hermann Goring

Realism has always been called cynicism.

— Gore Vidal

“I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens