Avoiding Quote by Julian Barnes

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

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

— Zane Grey

People want to see realism in action now.

— Akshay Kumar

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

— Johan Huizinga

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

— George Parsons Lathrop

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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 consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

— Jean Cocteau

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale…

— Satish Kumar