#rut

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#deceit #truth #art

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty ↗

— John Ruskin

#truth #architecture

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. ↗

— Garth Stein

#memory #racing #success #truth #art

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt ↗

— Christian Boltanski

#artist #death #sculpture #truth #art

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. ↗

— Kurt Schwitters

#brutality #creativity #deform #art

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#beauty #truth #art

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. ↗

— Charles McCabe

#truth #art

Truth must be found in reality, not systems. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#truth #art