Quotes About Truth

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

The greatest art is philosophy.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.