Art Quotes

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

Tracy Morgan

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Tucker Max

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexi...

Ted Naifeh

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collab...

Ted Naifeh

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Thomas Nashe

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Tim O'Brien

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have ha...

Terry Pratchett

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

Ty Pennington

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Tara Reid

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Tim Robbins

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

Tom Rachman

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

Tracy Reese

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

Trent Reznor

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Taylor Swift

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Ted Shawn

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

Thomas Schlamme

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Thomas Sydenham

I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.

Tim Story

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sa...

Tino Sehgal