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

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

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

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Art is a lie that makes us realize 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.

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Art is lies that tell the truth.