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
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
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
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Crispin Glover
Morris Raphael Cohen 
Crispin Glover 
Barbara Hepworth 
Mary Grandpre 
Dylan Moran 
Jackson Pollock 
Ronald Fisher 
Sara Paretsky 
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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
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
58% 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
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Crispin Glover
57% 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
57% of people like this quote
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
56% of people like this quote
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
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