Mistakes picture creative energy

Dare to be wrong, or you may never be right.

J. Michael Bishop, Nobel prize lecture (1989) and "How to Win the Nobel Prize" (2003)

Mistakes are not a sign of failure, they picture creative energy. Mistakes are made by those who do new things.

true art is angsty

Images also want truth: they want to know what is real, true art is angsty

According to the postmodern view that there is no absolute truth, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

P. Mondrian, "Towards the True Vision of Reality", in d.m.a. 2. Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, p.15, (N.Y., 1951).

The new theme was: Art must be a quest for truth, however brutal, and not a quest for beauty. So the question became: What is the truth of art?

Stephen Hicks, in "Why art became ugly"

True art speaks plainly.

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A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.

Logic is not the truth

Max Ernst, Writings on Art, there simply is no single "right thing".