Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realise the truth

Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

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

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

Art is in
what you leave out.

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice)

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes.