I come from a small village called Murud Janjira near Alibaug. I started doing theatre right from school days and later joined the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, after which I joined an advertising agency.
— Nana Patekar
I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
— Nadine Velazquez
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.
— N. K. Jemisin
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
— Muriel Spark
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
— Muhammad Iqbal
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
— Moses Mendelssohn
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
— Mos Def
If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.
— Morley Safer
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
— Morihei Ueshiba
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
— Montgomery Clift
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade.
— Molly Crabapple
Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'
I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.
— Mohanlal
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
— Moby
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present - that's activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.
— Mj Rodriguez
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
— Nalini Nadkarni
When you are pursuing art, it is critical to develop something signature. There are plenty of people who are followers, but it is absolutely necessary to have something that sets you apart.
— Nadia Ali
I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
— Muriel Rukeyser
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.
— Mort Walker
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.
— Molly Shannon
The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.
Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
— Mohsin Hamid
If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain directors of my movies were not able to be there for some reason and had asked me to help out, I have directed. But to helm an entire movie is a different art altogether.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
— Modest Mussorgsky
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Today I may advocate through my art, but I've won my share of 'hood fights.' So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I'd be the first one to jump in.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
— Naguib Mahfouz
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
— N. Scott Momaday
Artists who are passionate about their music and in love with their art go independent because they want to continue making music and serving it to the world.
— Mya
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a chance to choreograph a show for... It was just this incredible production with all these masters.
— Morley
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.
— Mordicai Gerstein
I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.
The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.
I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.
— MO
