Quotes About Truth

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

The art of art... is simplicity.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Drawing is deception.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?