Quotes About Truth

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

For art to be art it has to cure.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

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

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

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.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

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

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.