Quotes About Art

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

If You Are Feeling Blue, Try To Paint The Sky With It. When Its Done, Look At It And Then Definitely The Golden Sun Will Come Out From You To Brighten Up Your Entire Day....

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth.

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth

Is he 'abstract', or 'extract'? Cubish or tube-ist? A figmentist? Or pigmentist?

Rock in general is about that emotional release

The stuff we thought about and the stuff we sang about was the same thing

The male-female relationship, as a subject for song," Albini wrote, "is thoroughly bankrupt.

it was a phrase, it had power, I had this riff. To me, that's just sort of the alchemy of writing songs.

And the indie rock and art scenes have a lot in common: in both, talent is one thing, but otherwise it's all about making the right connections and orchestrating one's own creations into discernible and desirable movements.

And the indie rock and art scenes have a lot in common: in both, talent is one thing, but otherwise it's all about making the right connections and orchestrating one's own creations into discernible and desirable movements. Relationships are currency

Relationships are currency, something Sonic Youth had picked up on not only from the art world but from the camaraderie of the SST bands.