Quotes About Art

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.