Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Honesty is the best policy in life, but it is essential in art.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

— Billy Joel

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

— Andy Rooney

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

— Robert McKee

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

— Edward Abbey

Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Honesty is the soul of business

— Dutch Proverb

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

— Winston Churchill

“Honesty is, honestly, the best policy,” said Saracen. “But when honesty doesn’t work, lie, and lie convincingly.”

— Derek Landy

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich