Franz Marc Quotes

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

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

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

All of my music is honest.

My whole goal is to be honest and sincere with the music I'm making.

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

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

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

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

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.

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.