Quotes About Art

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The only truth is music.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.