Art Quote by Joseph Joubert

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

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

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

— E. F. Schumacher

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

— Iris Murdoch

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

— Theodor Adorno

“Art is short for artificial…so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation… In a way…

— Joni Mitchell

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in…

— Henri Bergson

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the…

— N.T. Wright

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

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the…

— Alex Grey