Pablo Picasso Quotes

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art lies because it's social.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.