Daniel Breaker Quotes

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

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.

Art and life are inseparable.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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?

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.