Top 37 Quotes About Realism Art
#1. Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose?
Danielle Paige
#3. Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Ben Nicholson
#4. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Oscar Wilde
#5. 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.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#6. Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
Sherwood Anderson
#7. The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.
E. E. Cummings
#8. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.
Minnelli Lucy France
#10. Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
Russell Smith
#11. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
Timothy Keller
#12. One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
Bruce Sterling
#13. It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.
Ursula Vernon
#14. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Antoni Tapies
#15. If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
Ronald Reagan
#16. Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#17. God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard
#18. We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Cesare Pavese
#19. Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
Carl Andre
#20. Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.
Terry Teachout
#21. The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#22. We can either pick our challenges in life, or life will pick them for us.
Michael Loynd
#23. Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#24. Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
Clive Bell
#25. He tried to make each painting capture that gently fuzzed qualit the camera gave everything, as if someone had patted away a top layer of clarity and left behind something kinder than the eye alone would see.
Hanya Yanagihara
#27. I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"
Derek R. Audette
#28. Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art
although it may possibly be very good journalism?
Sherwood Anderson
#29. Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Arthur Wesley Dow
#30. REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Ambrose Bierce
#31. PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!
Joe Hill
#32. Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.
Andre Bazin
#33. My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
Nikki Jean
#34. Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.
Jules Breton
#35. There is a curious law of art ... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
Northrop Frye
#36. Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.
Alex Grey
#37. To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.
Nicola Sturgeon
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