Doe Quote by Michelangelo

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present…

— Anonymous

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of…

— Bridget Riley

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

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

One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is…

— Willa Cather

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