Realism Quotes

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Let my enemies devour each other.

We need realism to deal with reality.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

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

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.