Art Quote by Ritwik Ghatak

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

“I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a…

— Brandon Sanderson

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

— Bertrand Russell

“Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Entertainers like to seem complicated But we're not complicated I can explain…

— Bo Burnham

“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness”

— Ahdaf Soueif

I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of…

— Tony Shafrazi

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can…

— Momus

“Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I…

— Lucian Freud

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him…

— Patti Smith

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola