Arts
- Thomas Williams (cartoonist) (1940–2002), English cartoonist
- Thomas Williams (Christadelphian) (1847–1913), editor of the Christadelphian Advocate magazine
- Thomas Williams (writer) (1926–1990), American novelist
- Thomas Lanier Williams (1911–1983), author known as Tennessee Williams
- Thomas Richard Williams (1825–1871), British photographer
- Joe Simmons (pornographic actor), screen name for Thomas Williams (1959–1995), model for Robert Mapplethorpe and actor in gay pornography
- Ras Shiloh, stage name for reggae artist Thomas Williams
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.”
—Ben Jonson (1573–1637)