Realism

🇦🇹Franz Kafka

Literature

Realism

1894–1924

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

🇫🇷Gustave Flaubert

Literature

Realism

1821–1880

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. (18 March 1857)"

Henrik Ibsen

Entertainment

Realism

"You don't get nothing for nothing in this life."

George Eliot

Journalism

Realism

1819–1880

"Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee."

🇫🇷Stendhal

Psychology

Realism

1783–1842

"In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives."

🇬🇧Angela Carter

Literature

Realism

1940–1992

"The Scriptorium: Angela Carter, by Jeff VanderMeer"

🇮🇳Salman Rushdie

Literature

Realism

b. 1947

"New York Times special feature on Rushdie, 1999"

"The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant."

🇺🇸Lucius Shepard

Literature

Realism

1943–2014

"Golden Gryphon Press official site - About Two Trains Running"

🇬🇧Alasdair Gray

Literature

Realism

1934–2019

"Documentary: Unlikely Murals, Mostly ... Part1"

🇺🇸C. J. Cherryh

Literature

Realism

b. 1942

"Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it."

🇺🇸Eugene O'Neill

Literature

Realism

1888–1953

"I hate doctors! They'll do anything — anything to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls! What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell!"

🇨🇳Mo Yan

Literature

Realism

b. 1955

"The fundamental principle of literature is to create something out of nothing and to make up stories. My creation has not been altogether fashioned out of nothing, and is not entirely made up."

🇬🇧Philip Massinger

Politics

Realism

1583–1640

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."

🇺🇸Thomas Eakins

Art

Realism

1844–1916

"Thomas Eakins Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

🇺🇸Jerome Frank

Law

Realism

1889–1957

"To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness."

🇲🇽Frida Kahlo

Art

Realism

1907–1954

"I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego."

🇺🇸Norman Rockwell

Art

Realism

1894–1978

"Complete List of Norman Rockwell Magazine Covers with Images"

🇫🇷Jean-François Millet

Art

Realism

1814–1875

"What do I care? 'I don't come here to please anybody. I come because there are antiques and models to teach me, that is all. Do I object to your figures, made of butter and honey ?"

"Just when you think that life is slowing down, magic happens. The universe sends you a message, like a tsvit paporot on your doorstep. The question is: what do you wish for?"

🇺🇸Eli Siegel

Philosophy

Realism

1902–1978

"In reality opposites are one; art shows this."

🇫🇷Honoré Daumier

Politics

realism

1808–1879

"'The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go'"

🇩🇪Erich Auerbach

Literature

Realism

1892–1957

"In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable."

🇺🇸Hans Morgenthau

Science

Realism

1904–1980

"Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms."

🇷🇺Isaac Levitan

Art

realism

1860–1900

"You probably think that my future landscapes will be soaked in pessimism, so to speak? Don’t worry, I love nature too much."

🇨🇱Eugenio Cruz Vargas

Literature

realism

1923–2014

"Silence is the space that has yet to be resolved where the dynamics of thinking and deciding."

🇺🇸Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art

realism

1859–1937

"No, father, you preach from the pulpit and I will preach with my brush."

William Hogarth

Art

Realism

1697–1764

"Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive."

🇵🇱Ryszard Kapuściński

Literature

Realism

1932–2007

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

🇦🇱Sadik Kaceli

Art

realism

1914–2000

"Kaceli, the titian of the Albanian painting."

🇬🇧George Barker (poet)

Literature

Realism

1913–1991

"A large collection of Barker's papers is located at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin"

🇭🇺Robert Capa

Journalism

Realism

1913–1954

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."

🇬🇧Jim Crace

Literature

realism

b. 1946

"I’m not interested in truths, like drawing an accurate picture of the real world. I’m interested in exploring the verities of the human condition."

🇬🇧Diana Wynne Jones

Literature

Realism

1934–2011

"People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end."

🇺🇸Alice Hoffman

Literature

Realism

b. 1952

"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."

🇺🇸Isabel Allende

Literature

Realism

b. 1942

"For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time."