I went into the business for the money and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark I can't help it. It's the truth.

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

In a decaying society art if it is truthful must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.