Ego Quote by Ryan Holiday

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Anonymous

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

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

— Edmund White

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

— Hob Broun

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

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

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

— Jean Cocteau

Realism has always been called cynicism.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Sherwood Anderson

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

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

— Tamora Pierce