The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
— Martin H. Fischer
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
— Martin Freeman
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
— Martin Filler
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
— Martha Stewart
I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.
— Martellus Bennett
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
— Marshall McLuhan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
There's an art to comedy.
— Marlon Wayans
Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
— Marketa Irglova
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
— Mark Strand
The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.
— Mark Ruffalo
DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
— Mark Ronson
I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.
— Mark Parker
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
— Mark Mothersbaugh
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
— Martin Gore
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
— Martin Amis
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
— Martha Graham
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
— Marlon James
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
— Mark Vonnegut
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
— Mark Spitz
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
— Mark Rothko
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
— Mark Roberts
You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.
Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
— Mark Morris
I want to learn how to do balloon art and make dolphins.
— Martin Garrix
My first engagement with any art was music.
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
— Martin Feldstein
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
— Martha Beck
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
— Marlene Dumas
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
— Mark Van Doren
Wrestling is the ultimate martial art.
— Mark Schultz
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.
— Mark Pincus
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.
