Art Quotes

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

Jackie Mason

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

James Mangold

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

James Marsters

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

James McCartney

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

James Mercer

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

James Montgomery

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down...

Jamie Muir

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

Jason Marsden

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Jason McCoy

I'm a huge art buff.

Jason Momoa

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you...

Jason Mraz

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

Jason Mraz

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Jeanne Moreau

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

Jim McKay

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

Jim McKelvey

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Jim Morrison

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miro

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Joe Murray

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Joe Murray

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art,...

John C. McGinley