I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
— Twyla Tharp
A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.
— Tuppence Middleton
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
— Tucker Max
Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.
— Trudie Styler
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
— Troy Garity
I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?
— Trixie Mattel
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
— Tristan Tzara
Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives.
— Trip Lee
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.
— Trevor Paglen
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.
I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.
— Trent Reznor
I don't get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.
— Travis Scott
I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.
— Tracy Morgan
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
— Tracey Emin
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
— Tori Amos
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
— Tony Scott
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
— Tony Kushner
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
— Tunde Adebimpe
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
— Tucker Carlson
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
— Trudi Canavan
I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.
— Troy Carter
'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.
For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But it's always been an effective move in our league.
— Tristan Thompson
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.
— Trevor St. John
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.
I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.
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.
I don't know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I've never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, 'Man, I'm in the presence of 'Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.'
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.
— Tracy Chapman
Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.
— Tovino Thomas
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
— Tony Snow
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
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
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of people who come from that culture. For example, the NWA movie is a fantastic, fantastic movie. You need people who can look at a piece of art like that and understand the artistry in it.
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
— Tristram Stuart
The fact that God is for me, that is huge for me when I am thinking about fighting my own sins, because my art tells me that God is against you.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
— Tre Cool
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
— Tracy Reese
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
— Tracie Bennett
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
— Toru Takemitsu
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I'm concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.
