Warren Beatty Quotes

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.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

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

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Life and art are inseparable.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.