Appearance Quotes

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The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to… — George Washington
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. — Gertrude Stein
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not… — Andre Malraux
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment. — Claude Monet
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to… — Claude Monet
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression. — Lewis Mumford
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths… — Auguste Rodin
Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man. — Robert Bridges
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. — Samuel Richardson
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. — David Hockney
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation -… — Hans Hofmann
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living… — Gustave Courbet
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or… — Joshua Reynolds
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice,… — Queen Victoria
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not… — Anthony Trollope
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
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. — John Naisbitt
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is… — Naomi Wolf

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