Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

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.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Fiction lags after truth.

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

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.