Quotes by Realism I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. Lynne Tillman realism not-interested reality I only understand realism. Manuel Puig realism 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 realism poetic philosophy I try to get a degree of realism in my music. Martin Gore realism degrees trying Idealism and realism meet in the actual. Mary Parker Follett idealism-and-realism realism idealism The realism of failure, the romance of success. Mason Cooley realism romance reality I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same. Michael Jackson deep-down plastic realism Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse. Nassim Nicholas Taleb realism skepticism My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there. Nikki Jean realism ugly art You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. Pablo Picasso realism erase reality Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. Paul Lynde believability realism comedy I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention. Peter Greenaway realism cinema believe Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. Philip Gulley realism long reality Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. Richard M. Nixon realism immoral idealism I learned my realism from guys like Kafka. Robert Coover realism guy You're right, super-realism is back in style. Robert Genn realism style Realism can break a writer's heart. Salman Rushdie realism break heart This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. Salman Rushdie realism insane-world strange 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. Samuel Beckett realism figures reality Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. Samuel Beckett realism surface reality «1234»