Example Quote by Mason Cooley

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 is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can,…

— David Kassan

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

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear.…

— Ouida

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

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac