If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
— Thomas Fuller
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
— Thomas Browne
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
— Thomas Aquinas
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
— Thom Yorke
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
— Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
— Thom Gunn
I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.
— Theresa Rebeck
To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.
— Theophilus London
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
— Theo Jansen
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?
— Theaster Gates
I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.
— The Weeknd
As I am well versed in the art of free-style wrestling, I am keen to pass on this art to the coming generation.
— The Great Khali
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
— Thomas Berger
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
— Thomas A. Edison
It is difficult to make political art work.
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
— Theophile Gautier
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.
— Thelma Golden
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?
— The Notorious B.I.G.
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
— Terry Zwigoff
Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.
— Terry Teachout
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
— Thomas Edward Brown
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
— Theodore Dreiser
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
— Theodor Mommsen
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
After intensive body building for eight years, I went to the U.S. for training. There, I learnt the art of wrestling. Later, I went to Japan and joined a wrestling group.
I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.
