Appearance Quote by Friedrich Schiller

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

— Pierre Bonnard

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

— Alfred de Vigny

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity…

— Oscar Wilde

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A woman's beauty should not imitate art.”

— Lionel Suggs

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw