Art Quotes

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Tracie Bennett

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

Teju Cole

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.

Thomas P. Campbell

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

Thomas P. Campbell

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Tim Cahill

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Tim Crouch

There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.

Tim Crouch

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Tim Crouch

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Tim Crouch

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

Tim Crouch

It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

Tisha Campbell-Martin

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Tom Clancy

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

Tom Colicchio

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Tommy Chong

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Tony Curtis

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Tre Cool

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Trudi Canavan

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Truman Capote

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

Tyler Cowen

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser