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

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer — at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

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

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Art possesses the formidable tool of . Take, for instance, theatre. Theatre, by convention, agrees to be fake; thanks to this convention, which is innocuous, it can tell the truth. Art can tell the truth, because it is a transfigured language which doesn’t claim to possess divine truth; with its ability to transform relationships, it can address even the most terrible issues, exploring them without being destroyed by them. But artists have to be conscious of their role.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

We must make art out of what happens to us.

Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.

Art is the beautiful illustration of Truth from the creative imagination. The truth is in our life and unless it comes from the formlessness to the form we do not realize it.

Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.