Realism Quotes - Page 2

• Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

  Dawn Powell

  Writing, People, Satire

  Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”

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• It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

  E. J. Hughes

  Appreciation, Artist, Thinking

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• Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

  Terri Windling

  Latin, Magic Realism, Hygiene

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

  Federico Fellini

  Real, Lines, Bad Word

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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• 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

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Technique, Doe

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• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reflection, Reality, Mirrors

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Choices, Painting

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• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

  Burton Silverman

  Passion, People, Events

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• I only understand realism.

  Manuel Puig

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• One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Distance, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

  Jim Henson

  Dark, Reality, Trying

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• Abstraction and realism work best together.

  Ken Danby

  Together, Abstraction

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• Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

  Igor Babailov

  Teaching, Artist, Keys

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• Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Successful, Law, Issues

  Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1993). “Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Zero, Painting, Creation

  "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Book by Kazimir Malevich, November 1916.

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• I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

  Antoni Tapies

  Art, Reality, Mind

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 25), 2004.

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• I don't want realism. I want magic!

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Desire, Want

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

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• I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

  Robert Reynolds

  Strong, Believe, Painting

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• Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

  Nelson Shanks

  Fake, Quality, Laundry

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Cynical

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Kind, Hard

  Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins

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• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Order, Space, Different

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”

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• Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

  Tori Amos

  Reality, Our Generation, Doe

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