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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.


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PABLO PICASSO We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
PABLO PICASSO Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth
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KILROY J. OLDSTER It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageo...
AGONA APELL Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will te...
D.H. LAWRENCE The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to m...
ROBERT BROWNING I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - ...
ROBERT BROWNING Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
THEODOR ADORNO Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
THEODOR W. ADORNO All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
VACLAV HAVEL Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar...
DAN BROWN At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not ...
DEB CALETTI The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
PETER USTINOV TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa...
DAN BROWN Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Even Expressing Truth while we speak TRUTH is an ART
ASHISH SOPHAT The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter ...
DENIS DIDEROT To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will b...
STEPHEN KING We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Life's irony;The truth lovehate the lie because, the lie makes it exist & also makes it temporarily ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
PETER USTINOV It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
CONFUCIUS It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
CONFUCIUS A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Life's Irony;The truth lovehates the lie because,the lie makes it exist & also makes it to temporari...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE It is the devil that will lie to you that ignorance is bliss. The truth is ignorance is not bliss, b...
UNKNOWN A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
DOGEN The truth is, I'm not body confident.
TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL A gift of truth is the gift of love.
DAVID ICKE Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.
MATT BERNINGER Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Truth is always a delusion.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does t...
MICHAEL SPENCER Jesus made waves. He spoke the truth, did the truth, lived the truth. Maybe that's the secret to fre...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don�...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'...
LADY GAGA Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the tru...
RAVI ZACHARIAS The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
H. L. MENCKEN The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
HERBERT AGAR The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN We have art in order not to die of the truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?...
DOUGLAS PRESTON San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a nove...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Truth hurts the most when you know the least of it and realize what is.
ANDONI GARCIA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
JOHN RUSKIN Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
GEORGE SAND In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
UNKNOWN The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
DUANE MICHALS We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bi...
DENIS DIDEROT 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATS The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something ex...
KHALED HOSSEINI Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the...
HYPATIA Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
RAVI ZACHARIAS Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
JULES RENARD The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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PABLO PICASSO My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.
PABLO PICASSO They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better...
PABLO PICASSO Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO It takes a long time to grow young.
PABLO PICASSO Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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