Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old realism quotes, realism sayings, and realism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Realism is often mistakenly identified with the view that there is some special discipline which has privileged access to the real.David K. Clark
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Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.Ales Kot
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Pure realism is both unsustainable and purposeless.John Bew
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Realism can break a writer's heart.Salman Rushdie
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Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.M.F. Moonzajer
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reasonthat is its reason for existing.G.K. Chesterton
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Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge.Balroop Singh
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It has been said that modern realism begins from the position that truth can be discovered by the individual through the senses.Ian Watt
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.Lily Tomlin
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People want to see realism in action now.Akshay Kumar
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There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.Fumito Ueda
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.Philip K. Dick
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.Edgar Degas
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True realism, materialist 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
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Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.Walter J. Phillips
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.Jean Cocteau
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Realism has always been called cynicism.Gore Vidal
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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
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.Ayn Rand
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We need realism to deal with reality.Slick Rick
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A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.John C. Maxwell
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Realism and abstractionism are not enemies. They eat out of the same dish, but their digestive systems are different.Leo Stein
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.Claude Mckay
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The only realism in art is of the imagination.William Carlos Williams
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.Henri Bergson
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There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself.Audrey Flack
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A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.Ursula K. Le Guin
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Realism is a corruption of reality.Wallace Stevens
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Realism seems not like an end in itself, but like a portal to something truly new.Melanie Peter
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.Henry A. Kissinger