"Illusion is a comfortable garment thrown over an uncomfortable truth which, left too long covered, must rot."
–– Ann-Marie MacDonald (b. 1958), Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host
Source: Ann-Marie MacDonald. Fayne. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022; p. 681.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 33.
"The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it –– exactly and completely."
–– Dainin Katagiri (1928-1990), Japanese Buddhist monk and writer
Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, October 7, 2024.
via: Sketchbook O #15, 2024, p. 6.
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!
–– Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), American writer and journalist
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 15.
"I think 99 times and I find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist
"Aesthetics is a movement from the right brain to the left. Consequently, art is often a back door to the truth."
–– Tim Keller (b. 1950), American pastor, theologian and author
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 21.
"It's just a truth that's unfamiliar to you."
–– Murrumu of Walubara, (b. 1974) Australian Indigenous Yidindji man formerly known as Jeremy Geia, former journalist, Australian Aboriginal activist, foreign affairs minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government micronation
Source: The New York Times International Edition, World, Tuesday September 17, 2019, p. 3.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 30.
""Know the truth about the teller and you'll know the truth about the tale.""
–– Gail Bowen (b. 1942), Canadian author and playwright
Source: Gail Bowen. A Colder Kind of Death. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994, p. 86.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2018, p. 6.
"Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views."
–– George Sand, pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, (1804-1876), French writer
"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living."
–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist
via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 132.
"To say that making art is a conversation or dialogue between the maker and the paper is to oversimplify –– It is a series of attractions and repulsions that may begin with intention and end with analysis but the real meaning (the truth of the work) is arrived at in the processes and moments of making."
–– William Kentridge (b. 1955), South African artist
via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 105.
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 47.
"I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist
via: Artwork Archive on Instagram September 16, 2022
"Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate."
–– Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American writer
via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 33
"Tell the truth but tell it slant."
–– Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet
via Sketchbook 8, 2009, p. 46
"If you're an artist and you want to get steadily better at your craft, you need to continually refine your approach to telling the truth."
– Willa Cather (1873-1947) Pulitzer prize winning American author
via Sketchbook 7, 2009, p. 73.
"We have art so that we will not be destroyed by the truth."
–– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German poet and philosopher
via Sketchbook 7, 2009, p. 46
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth comes to the top."
–– Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer, critic, & publisher
via Commonplace Book 2006, p. 106.
