Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof the true mark of a Christian?

But the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth whatever it might turn out to be.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things our dream-life the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth to mouths like mine at least.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth wisdom is dying out.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

What I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say when one has nothing to say however and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

I went into the business for the money and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark I can't help it. It's the truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

In a decaying society art if it is truthful must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.