Quotes About Art

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

I trust no one who hasn't time for music.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.