Art Quote by 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

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

— Asger Jorn

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Zane Grey

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

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

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

— Federico Fellini