Quotes About Truth

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

Art never comes from happiness

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Facts produce structures, objects are lyrical realities.

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

Artists show us what we blind to."Baris Gencel

Artists shows us what we blind to.