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“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”

Art Lying Artist Art Is Roots Sincerity Insincerity

Author:Quentin Bell

“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.”

Littles Art Moments Lying Artist Fall Audience Creating Falling In Love Tiny Live In The Moment Slides

Author:Lady Gaga

“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.”

Ifs Knows Truth Lying Artist Reports

Book:Real People: A Novel

Source: Real People: A Novel

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

Lying Artist Power Emotional Painting Intellectual Conscious Response Association Subconscious Emotional Response

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

May Art Self Moments Lying Artist Healing Creative Expression Periods Solitude Encounters Me Alone Self Expression Alone Time Upkeep Recharging

Author:Julia Cameron

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow

“Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.”

Lying Artist Journey Patterns Subtle Being An Artist

Author:Graeme Base