Covered Quote by Jean Cocteau

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

— George Parsons Lathrop

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

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

— Asger Jorn

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

— Anonymous

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

— Hob Broun

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 sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these…

— George Parsons Lathrop

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…

— Willa Cather

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

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