Edgar Degas Quotes

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

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

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Don't confuse facts with reality.