Artistic Quote by Adam McKay

“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it…

— Sean DeLauder

“The moral aspect was merely a concomitant, a coverall for some deeper, almost forgotten purpose. That histoire should be story, lie and history all…

— Henry Miller

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

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…

— Lady Gaga

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

— Anonymous

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it,…

— Anne Rice

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the…

— Brian Eno

The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda