Appear Quotes
1904 Appear quotes by 1364 unique authors
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Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under…
— Eugene Delacroix
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I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us,…
— Garry Shandling
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
— Theophrastus
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I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it…
— Leon Battista Alberti
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Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the…
— Lord David Cecil
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Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.
— Chin-Ning Chu
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick…
— James F. Cooper
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Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms…
— Philip Guston
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What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where…
— Philip Guston
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The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night,…
— Mickey Hart
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I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems…
— Neil Gershenfeld
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I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic…
— Leslie Nielsen
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Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists…
— Charles Saatchi
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It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in…
— Asger Jorn
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There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the…
— Romano Prodi
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So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the…
— Emil Brunner
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As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the…
— Mahlon Hoagland
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About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals?…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear…
— Sigfried Giedion
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You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not…
— Richard Schmid
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The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches…
— E. J. Hughes
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The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some…
— Max Planck
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