Karl Kraus Quotes

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

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

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.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

Fantasy is the only truth.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

The thing that is believed is a reality.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.