The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.