--- title: "9 Art True Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Art True quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Art True sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4b/sir-john-davies-32431_art_thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog-193717_1937175.jpg" --- > [Thou art true and honest as a dog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog/) [Sir John Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-john-davies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4b/sir-john-davies-32431_art_thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog-193717_1937175.jpg) > [Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chow/mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my-time-true-to-my-dream-and/) [Michael Chow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/michael-chow-48716_art_mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my_1972661.jpg) > [“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-rthe-binkert/after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-image-and-a-criterion-for-the/) [Dörthe Binkert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-rthe-binkert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/d-rthe-binkert-44028_art_after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-imag_2871192.jpg) > [If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/if-all-you-boast-of-your-great-art-be-true-sure-willing-poverty-lives/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/ben-jonson-1371_art_if-all-you-boast-of-your-great-art-be-tr_2275601.png) > [Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/since-art-is-merely-and-ultimately-self-expressive-we-conclude-that/) [Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/allen-ginsberg-1110_art_since-art-is-merely-and-ultimately-self_1945847.jpg) > [To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-graham-ryken/to-be-pleasing-to-god-art-must-be-true-as-well-as-good-truth-has/) [Philip Graham Ryken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-graham-ryken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/philip-graham-ryken-36263_art_to-be-pleasing-to-god-art-must-be-true-a_1808293.jpg) > [The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gungor/the-whole-idea-of-worship-being-associated-with-music-it-gives-you-an/) [Michael Gungor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gungor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/michael-gungor-15350_art_the-whole-idea-of-worship-being-associat_2577277.png) > [To love without condition, to talk without intention, to give without reason and to care without expectation. This is the art of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-love-without-condition-to-talk-without-intention-to-give-without-4/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/240/anonymous-1_art_to-love-without-condition-to-talk-withou_2866383.jpg) > [Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-richie/believe-me-i-love-commerce-as-much-as-the-rest-of-the-readers-of/) [Lionel Richie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-richie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/lionel-richie-13497_art_believe-me-i-love-commerce-as-much-as-th_2986166.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-true/#itemlist", "name": "Art True Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thou art true and honest as a dog.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sir John Davies" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-john-davies/thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4b/sir-john-davies-32431_art_thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog-193717_1937175.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4b/sir-john-davies-32431_art_thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog-193717_1937175.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4b/sir-john-davies-32431_art_thou-art-true-and-honest-as-a-dog-193717_1937175.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Thou art true and honest as a dog.” — Sir John Davies", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Chow" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chow/mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my-time-true-to-my-dream-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/michael-chow-48716_art_mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my_1972661.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/michael-chow-48716_art_mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my_1972661.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/michael-chow-48716_art_mys-philosophy-toward-art-is-true-to-my_1972661.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.” — Michael Chow", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dörthe Binkert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-rthe-binkert/after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-image-and-a-criterion-for-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/d-rthe-binkert-44028_art_after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-imag_2871192.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/d-rthe-binkert-44028_art_after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-imag_2871192.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/d-rthe-binkert-44028_art_after-all-what-is-art-if-not-a-true-imag_2871192.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?” — Dörthe Binkert", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If all you boast of your great art be true; 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