294 Quotes About Realism

Life is not fair. You can keep regretting it but absolutely nothing will change. You can keep trying but If it has not worked for you till now, most probably it will not work in the future as well.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie."("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.")

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.