Art Quotes · Page 18

The power of art is the power of truth.

— Julian Beck

To make art you need to be inspired.

— Greg Lake

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

— Ted Godwin

All I owe the world is my art.

— Sherman Alexie

I come from a family of artists.

— Katherine Moennig

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

Art is what you can get away with.

— Andy Warhol

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

— Werner Bischof

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

— Richard Wright

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

— Ellen Ullman

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

— John Constable

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold…

— Sun Tzu

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.

— Govinda

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this…

— Eugen Herrigel

It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your…

— Tim Winton

Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I…

— L.C. Cooke

I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary…

— Christina Aguilera

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it…

— Albert Einstein

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I…

— Janna Levin

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could…

— Michael Audain

Time is not important, but art is.

— Edward Betts

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

— Sheena Easton

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

— John Lennon

I can concentrate on my art.

— Lou Reed

Every human being is a work of art.

— Wolf Vostell

Life is an art work without an eraser.

— Anonymous

“You must be an artist and an actor.”

— Ehab Atalla

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

— Dorothy Nevill