Quotes About Art

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.