Marco Tempest Quotes

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

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.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Art lies by its own artifice.

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.