Contact Quote by Henri Bergson

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— Anonymous

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

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

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Hob Broun

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

— Federico Fellini