Corruption Quote by Wallace Stevens

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

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

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

— Federico Fellini

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 believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

— Manuel Puig

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

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

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

— Zane Grey