Truthful Art Quotes

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

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'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth.

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

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

All art is a confession.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

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.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.