Painting Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the…

— Mason Cooley

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

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

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

— Gustave Courbet

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite…

— Albert Camus

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

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

— Federico Fellini

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens