Stendhal
Novelist
"Every true passion thinks only of itself."
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Very True
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did."
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"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."
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"In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid."
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