Aesthetic Truth Quotes

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.