George Sand - Truth Quotes

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To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

George Sand

Art is not the study of positive reality, but the search for ideal truth.

George Sand

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

George Sand

The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

George Sand

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

George Sand

Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

George Sand

Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.

George Sand