Realism Quotes

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

I only understand realism.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

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

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

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

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

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

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

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.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.