Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the truth. I mean, I'm nervous about any prescriptions for what a writer should or shouldn't do.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.