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Realism Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that..."
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Salman Rushdie quote: "Realism can break a writer's heart."
Realism can break a writer's heart. Salman Rushdie
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth. Georges Bataille
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings? Graham Swift
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. Crispin Glover
Crispin Glover quote: "Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as..."
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. Crispin Glover
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske
Federico Fellini quote: "Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I..."
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Federico Fellini
This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss tranforms only frogs into princes or... Umberto Eco
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to... Jonathan Franzen
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. Robert Frank
Oscar Wilde quote: "While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we..."
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Oscar Wilde
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. Marguerite Young
Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives Dallas Willard
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'. Yukio Mishima

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