“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemingway501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.”
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Source: The Mark of Athena
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
Carmen Lomas Garza (1948) Mexican-American artist and illustrator
On the racial divides in her household and community in “Oral history interview with Carmen Lomas Garza, 1997 Apr. 10-May 27” https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-carmen-lomas-garza-13540#transcript (Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
“The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.”
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Quote in 'Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland', by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/<br>Variant translation: The heart is the only true source of art, the language of a pure, child-like soul. Any creation not sprung from this origin can only be artifice. Every true work of art is conceived in a hallowed hour and born in a happy one, from an impulse in the artist's heart, often without his knowledge. (as quoted in the article 'Caspar David Friedrich's Medieval Burials', Karl Whittington - http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring12/whittington-on-caspar-david-friedrichs-medieval-burials) <br class="br">undated <br class="br">Context: The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.