Quotes About Art

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

The power of art is the power of truth.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.