294 Quotes About Realism

Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still waiting for the results.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.

The truth! The truth!Some minds wrote about -and yet - no truth;So I dared to write -but still there was no truth;So I call on truth itself,for it is knownand yet does not write;

When we paint, we paint with truth -and when live, we live without;so we dream and yet not sleepfor sleep takes our dreamsand does not trade it with doubt.

When we paint, we paint with truth -and when live, we live without it;so we dream and yet not sleepfor sleep takes our dreams;

The biggest robbery is to steal someone's dreams...