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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
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
— Konrad Lorenz
Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)
— Susan Sontag
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
— Denis Donoghue
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
— Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.
— William Shakespeare
All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.
— Jack Johnson
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
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
— Charlie Chaplin
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
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
— Aberjhani
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
— Charles McCabe
When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.
— David Levithan
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
— Auguste Rodin
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
— Charles Guggenheim
The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.
— Eric Samuel Timm
Love is one of the two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second. It is most certainly not colorful fungus.
— Melissa Jensen
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
— D.H. Lawrence
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
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
— Thomas Carlyle
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
— Pablo Picasso
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlsons
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
Art is the truth of the imagination.
— Marty Rubin
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
— Richard B. Garnett
This is what Great Art does. It becomes more real than the real, more true than the truth.
— Cormac McCarthy
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
— Milford Zornes
Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.
— Debasish Mridha
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
— Ammianus Marcellinus
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
— Duane Michals
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art. — Debasish Mridha
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
— Theodor W. Adorno
When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.
— Toni Sorenson
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
— Publilius Syrus
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
— Yahtzee Croshaw
To be an artist, one must ... never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
— Diego Rivera
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
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
— Austin O'Malley
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
From personal adversity comes great art
— Tan Redding
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
— Octave Feuillet
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
— David R. Brower
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
Ah Life,Thou art a false truth! — Raheel Farooq
Truth in art is truth n circumstances.
— Konstantin Stanislavsky
Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.
— Debasish Mridha
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
— Christopher Caudwell
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
— Walter Benjamin
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
— Herbert Marcuse
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
— Ray Bradbury
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
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
— Maria Montessori
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
— Kazimir Malevich
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
— Billy Joel
I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.
— Frederick Lenz
Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older.
— Debasish Mridha
Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.
— Debasish Mridha
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
— Franz Kafka
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
Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance.
— Linda Holiday
We have truth in order not to die of art.— Steve Aylett
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
— Clarice Lispector
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
— Christian Boltanski
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
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
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
— Tiffany Madison
