Adequate Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

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

— Hob Broun

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 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

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

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

— Federico Fellini

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

— Anonymous

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 is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense…

— John Fiske

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

— George Parsons Lathrop

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