quotations about realism
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
PAUL CHRISTOPHER
The Lucifer Gospel
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
attributed, Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic
Hyperrealism is both breathtaking and boring. I want to see the Artist's hand in the work of art. I want to see the essence and the spirit of the subject, and I want to see a celebration of the Medium in the work of art.
JANET BADGER
attributed, Art Quotes
Realism is not enough--there has to be vision.... It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins.
ROBERT FRANK
attributed, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology
But what reality was ever made by realists?
RICHARD FLANAGAN
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
It's not clear to me that realism is a rallying cry.
ROBERT SHRUM
"Clinton, Sanders use N.H. primary to frame long battle to come", Washington Post, February 5, 2016
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
EDMUND BURKE
The Letters on a Regicide Peace
If the defining feature of realism is the belief that there is a world existing independently of our knowledge of it, then that independence of objects from knowledge immediately undermines any complacent assumptions about the relation between them and renders it problematic. What reason have we for accepting this basic realist proposition of the mind-independence of the world? I would argue that it is the evident fallibility of our knowledge -- the experience of getting things wrong, of having our expectations confounded, and of crashing into things -- that justifies us in believing that the world exists regardless of what we happen to think of it.
ANDREW SAYER
introduction, Realism and Social Science