Walt Whitman Quotes

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

Walt Whitman

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• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
  • Artist

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Desire

• If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.

  

  Alexandre Vinet
  • Great
  • May
  • Truth

• Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Murder

• The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Truth
  • Church

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  

  Michael J. Fox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Everything

• It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Artist
  • Possess