Quotes About Authenticity

Reality confounds image.

No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all the things they don't know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious?

She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic, and wondrous in its small self, and not any kind of bullshit. She could detect bullshit from a hillside away. But then she took people at face value and expected the best of them until proven otherwise.

Paulson said there was a principle in aesthetics: the more you prettify something, the more you risk undermining its value. Its essential value.

He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?

Don't make excuses for shitty people. You can't put a flower in an asshole and call it a vase.

No puede existir una versión auténtica del cristianismo sin una entidad lingüística conocida como la palabra de Dios.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.

But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.