Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

We have lost the taste for the real.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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

Every edit is a lie.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.