Le Corbusier Quotes

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

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.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.