Appearance Quote by Hans Hofmann

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork…

— PJ Harvey

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A vigorous debate…

— Richard Edelman

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring