A Quote by Gore Vidal

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Gore Vidal

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Art Lying Made Minor Truman

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Fran Lebowitz

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

Josh Smith

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

Robert Rauschenberg

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

Steve Earle

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

Lisa Unger

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Lafcadio Hearn

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

Gary Saul Morson

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.

Charles J. Shields

That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.

Rachel Hartman

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

Gore Vidal

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.