Art Quote by Patti Smith

“Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself?”

— Patti Smith

“Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.”

— Louis Faurer

“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a…

— Nikki Rowe

“Art is something that we know it lie to us. Someone who like art; they lie to themselves.”

— ASAID

“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

“I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to…

— Francesco Vettori friend of Niccolò Machiavelli

“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

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin