“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”
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“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.”
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”
“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”
“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.”