Art Quote by Henri Matisse

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an…

— Henri Matisse

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense…

— Henri Matisse

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is…

— Pablo Picasso

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

— E. F. Schumacher

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as…

— George Santayana

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin