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As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely e...

Darren Criss

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'

Kevin Bleyer

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

Oliver Ellsworth

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Truman Capote

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

2312

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

Abyss

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

All for Love

True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Among the Nameless Stars

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

Zooey Deschanel

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

How to Make an American Quilt

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

The Hours

On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.

How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Healing the Shame that Binds You

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself