Quotes About Authenticity

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Have the courage to face the truth

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Honesty will never break you.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.