Quotes About Art

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.