Appearance Quotes - Page 6
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.205, Univ of California Press
William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.11, Cosimo Classics
Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.
Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.285, Random House
My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub
Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.532, Oxford University Press, USA
Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.
Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.144, Penguin