Appearance Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings -…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Gustave Courbet

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far…

— Israel Zangwill

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

— Steven Whitney

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh