Bed Quote by Satish Kumar

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

— Laura van den Berg

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Hob Broun

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

— Anonymous

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

— Federico Fellini

“Sometimes realism seems to mean no more than the advice to plan ahead before you start a war. Sometimes realism means the recognition that…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Zane Grey

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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