Quotes About Authenticity

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

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

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

No art should be fashionable.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.