Sam Hunt Quotes

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

The best stories come out of the truth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.

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

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.