Art Quote by Bruce Nauman Download Open image “In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.” — Bruce Nauman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Done Honest Knows Truth
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They… — Michele Zackheim Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To be an artist, any type of artist, you have to be honest with yourself. — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
My obligation as an artist is to be completely honest and to also show people themselves through me; that's my job. — Doechii Copy Share Image
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art. — Ken Jeong Copy Share Image
My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here.… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
