Decided Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey

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

— Hob Broun

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

— Laura van den Berg

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Realism has always been called cynicism.

— Gore Vidal

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

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Anonymous

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

— Henri Bergson

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Federico Fellini