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OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio’s genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It’s not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he’s surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Barbra Streisand

Art does not exist only to entertain — but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.

We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It’s not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he’s surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand.