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.
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.
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".