Aesthetic Realism Quotes

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason they shoot it with a 35mm camera or a 4K camera, and they just put it on the TV as if that's the way it would look - it always takes me out of it by putting a filter on certain things. If it's too high quality, you're never gonna buy it.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.