Always Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

— Diana Silvers

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

“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

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means…

— Max Beckmann

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

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

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

— Justin Kirk

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's…

— David Draiman

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

— Georges Bizet

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

— Grant Bowler

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

— Cindy Sherman