I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'
— Melvin Van Peebles
I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?
— Melanie Martinez
For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
— Meghan Markle
There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.
— Megan Mullally
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.
— Megalyn Echikunwoke
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
— Maynard James Keenan
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
— Maya Lin
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.
— Maya Hawke
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
— Maya Angelou
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
— Max Walker
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.
— Max Minghella
There is no art without Eros.
— Max Frisch
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
— Max Bill
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
— Max Beerbohm
Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.
— Mawra Hocane
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
— Melvin Maddocks
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
— Mel Gibson
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
— Megan Fox
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
— Meg Cabot
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.
— Max Verstappen
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.
— Max Joseph
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
— Max Eastman
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
— Max Beckmann
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.
— Maurizio Seracini
I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
— Melissa Leo
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.
— Mel B
I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy Angeleno uniform, so to speak. But for my role on 'Suits,' I'm dressed in Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, and Prada almost every day. And therein lies the difference. For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.
— Megan Ellison
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
— Maxwell Anderson
Pitching is both an art and a science.
— Max Scherzer
I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
