Appearance Quote by Richard Donner

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with…

— Fernando Pessoa

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All…

— Gerhard Richter

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

— Scott Derrickson

“This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.”

— Geroge MacDonald

“ask these questions not to dispute the tone Jameson attributes to these postmodern artifacts—the exhilaration he is speaking of is clearly of the capitalist…

— Sianne Ngai

I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

— Tracey Moffatt

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

— Louis Auchincloss

“Writers reduce what they write, and readers reduce what they read. The brain itself is made to reduce, replace, emblemize... Verisimilitude is not only…

— Peter Mendelsund

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done.”

— Donald Barthelme