realism

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. 

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

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.