(78 quotes found)
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
Ayn Rand
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Pablo Picasso
“While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality”
Virginia Woolf
“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”
Jean Cocteau
“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
“Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.”
G. K. Chesterton
