Inspirational Quote by Hob Broun

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Anonymous

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

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

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real…

— 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

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

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 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

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

— Manuel Puig

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

— Zane Grey