Top Realism Quotes
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Paul Lynde
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Crispin Glover
Federico Fellini 
Dylan Moran 
Claude McKay 
Paul Lynde 
Daniel Clowes 
Sara Paretsky 
Ronald Fisher 
Slick Rick 
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Paul Lynde 
64% of people like this quote
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky
60% of people like this quote
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White
57% of people like this quote
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson
56% of people like this quote
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Crispin Glover
56% of people like this quote
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
Tori Amos
56% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
55% of people like this quote
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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Popular Realism Authors
Oscar WildeAldous HuxleyGustave FlaubertBette DavisManuel PuigJean CocteauPaul LyndeAngela CarterAlice HoffmanSara ParetskyJim HensonMarguerite YoungTerri WindlingMitchell ReissJackson Pollock
Kathryn BigelowDylan MoranOliver NorthTori AmosFederico FelliniMorris Raphael CohenSlick RickMarvin MinskySeamus HeaneyEdmund WhiteGustave CourbetRonald FisherDawn PowellBarbara HepworthDebbie Reynolds
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