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.

Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

When you learn that a truth is a lie anger follows.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away they just echo around.

Speak the truth do not yield to anger give if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.