Quotes About Art

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.

The music is not the truth.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.