Actual life Quote by Maurice Sendak

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 must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior…

— Franz Marc

“I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends...well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through…

— Brea Nicole Bond

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

— Theodor Adorno

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far…

— Israel Zangwill

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo