Quotes About Truth

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Art never lies, I believe.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Art has to address eternal issues.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Comedy is a noble art.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.