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The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD — Kate Atkinson

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. — Thomas Carlyle

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? — Nicolas Cage

Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.) — Susan Sontag

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth. — James Dickey

Life is a canvas, so make your life as an ageless art. Everybody will be able to look at it and enjoy it. And, with time, it will get more valuable. — Debasish Mridha

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris

The only truth left is my drunkenness, my sex, and my art. — Christopher Bram

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it. — Kamal Ravikant

Logic is the art of making truth prevail. — Jean De La Bruyere

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. — Charles McCabe

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. — Auguste Rodin

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. — David Levithan

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas. — Debasish Mridha

Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama. — Debasish Mridha

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim

The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment. — Jessica Zafra

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress. — Richard B. Garnett

We now know that Art is not the truth ... but rather a way of approaching the truth. — Pablo Picasso

To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job. — Marty Rubin

The challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth. — Phyllis Rose

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. — D.H. Lawrence

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. — Laura Riding

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. — Pablo Picasso

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

My life is an art and I am the artist. — Debasish Mridha

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side. — Rachel Kushner

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth. — Jean Anouilh

Truth is most beautiful undraped. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. — Ellen Hopkins

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami

Art is a lie that reveals the truth. — Pablo Picasso

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty — John Ruskin

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror ... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. — Sara Genn

Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance — Julian Barnes

Art-speech is the only truth. — D.H. Lawrence

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least. — Robert Browning

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. — Pablo Picasso

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price. — Sarah Josepha Hale

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us. — Sonia Sanchez

The core of my writing is not art but truth. — Philip K. Dick

Art is a lie that tells the truth — Jean-Claude Ellena

What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art. — Marty Rubin

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. — Wendelin Van Draanen

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth. — William Zinsser

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there. — Nikki Jean

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art. — Kevin James Breaux

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. — Adam Phillips

The power of art is the power of truth. — Julian Beck

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. — Bruce Lee

What you see is what you see — Frank Stella

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. — Ala Bashir

Art is lies that tell the truth. — Pablo Picasso

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end. — William Whewell

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead

Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth. — Nam Le

Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance. — Linda Holiday

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. — Flannery O'Connor

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy. — Debasish Mridha

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art. — Octave Feuillet

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn

Art is the lie that tells the truth — Cris Beam

Truth in art is truth n circumstances. — Konstantin Stanislavsky

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. — Austin O'Malley

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor. — Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. — Samuel Johnson

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. — John F. Kennedy

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest

Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth. — Rob Ryser

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. — Duane Michals

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,
that is the secret of the fine arts. — Joseph Joubert

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. — Theodor W. Adorno

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. — Maxim Gorky

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. — Ayn Rand

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't — Yahtzee Croshaw

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — Walter Darby Bannard

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich

The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

This is what Great Art does. It becomes more real than the real, more true than the truth. — Cormac McCarthy

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws. — Ron Brackin

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. — Milford Zornes