truthfulness quotes

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

-Willa Sibert Cather
  The Song of the Lark, pt.6, ch.11.

  In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

- David Hume
^62  Kosmos (translated as Cosmos,1897).