Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
— Talib Kweli
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
— Tali Lennox
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
— Takeshi Kitano
I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.
— Takashi Murakami
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
— Taj Mahal
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
— Tahl Raz
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
— Tadao Ando
Who said that looking good is not a task? There are so many girls with a well maintained body, but will they be able to walk the beachside in front of the camera wearing a swimsuit? Carrying your body in a certain manner to look sexy is also an art.
— Taapsee Pannu
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
— T. S. Eliot
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
— T. C. Boyle
Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
— T Bone Burnett
I love Tilda Swinton and the way she dresses. She always looks like a piece of art.
— Sylvia Hoeks
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
— Sylvester Stallone
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
— Sydney Pollack
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.
In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
— Taika Waititi
What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
— Tahar Rahim
I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.
— Tabu
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.
I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.
— Sylvia Plath
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
— Sylvia Earle
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.
I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.
You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.
In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.
I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
