Quotes About Art

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.