I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct.
— Michelle Dean
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
— Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
— Michel Foucault
My trade and art is to live.
— Michel de Montaigne
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
— Michael Winslow
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
— Michael Tippett
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
— Michael Steinhardt
If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
— Michael Schudson
Wagner had a terrific understanding of politics. In 1829, he was a Marxist revolutionary who wanted to bring down the establishment. He hated religion and churches, which he said enslaved people. But he later developed different views that put art at the centre of the life of the state.
— Michael Portillo
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
— Michael Polanyi
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
— Michael Palin
To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.
— Michael Mosley
I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
— Michael Moriarty
I don't watch any other comedy, I don't study stand-up as an art.
— Michael McIntyre
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
— Michael Leunig
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
— Michel Onfray
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.
— Michael Wolff
Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.
— Michael Welch
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
— Michael Schenker
My grandfather was a great advocate of Scottish art at a time when Scottish artists struggled to be taken seriously. They were not highly regarded, but he fought for them, befriended them, and championed them.
Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.
— Michael Pitt
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
— Michael O'Brien
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'
— Michael Morpurgo
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
— Michael Moore
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.
— Michel Hazanavicius
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
— Michel Faber
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas - if you can't say it, you can't think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.
— Michael Stuhlbarg
A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.
— Michael Pryor
Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood - as do other family members.
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
— Michael Musto
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
All art is about appealing to emotion.
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
