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This collection holds 244 realism quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Manuel Puig, Debra Granik and Salman Rushdie.

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I only understand realism.

Social realism takes research.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Realism and art cannot live together.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

I studied realism when I was in art school.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

Guy Ritchie likes to ground things in realism.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

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

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

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

Conservative politics are about pragmatism, realism and stability.

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

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

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

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.

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

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

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