Quotes About Truth

The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

When kids ask questions there is a painful honesty at times and they will ask things that throw me.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.

I went to a physiotherapist, and she said something to me no one has ever said: 'Sandi, you have plantar fasciitis, because you're fat.' I left and sat in my car shaking. She'd told me the truth, which no one else had. It was painful, but I needed to hear it.

Paint the essential character of things.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

I don't know what I'm painted as. I can be happy as hell and then someone says something and I feel different. People are going to say whatever they want to say to... get people to read their story. I just ask people to write the whole, complete story.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.