Appearance Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

— Allan Kaprow

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in…

— Henri Bergson

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone…

— Michael Kimmelman

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“art is the link between appearance and reality.”

— Evelyn Underhill

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who…

— Pauline Kael

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs…

— Fab Moretti

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with…

— Edward Albee

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

— Shepard Fairey