Quotes About Truth

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.