When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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.
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.